depredator

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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

This course punishes the innocent and rewards the guilty, because the property taken by the depredator is of more value than the slight percentage he loses.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

She would again show him that she was not a lone and helpless woman at the mercy of the casual depredator.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator, and, shouting "Stop thief!" with all his might, made off after him, book in hand.

From Ten Boys from Dickens by Williams, George Alfred

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)