depredator
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Uncle Denis had been busily employed in forming a trap in which he hoped to catch the depredator.
From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.
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
The depredator has intercepted the rewards of toil, and marred the image of justice, and dimmed the lustre of faith in men’s minds.
From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet
By themselves both Hakim Khan and the Kirghiz depredator were beneath contempt; but with an enemy established on the soil of the country, they assumed a too clear and mischievous importance.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
