despoiled

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Metaphors may have no place at a concentration camp, but it’s hard to look at this beautiful enclosed space and not see it, perversely, as the most despoiled of Edens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie’s “The Oak” is set in a world so despoiled a Hieronymus Bosch landscape might seem bucolic by comparison.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Too much of Seattle has been despoiled by the greed and power of developers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

They despoiled the building with their urine and feces.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

Siccio now dared to reveal to him the secret of his birth, and the manner in which he had been despoiled, as the old man only suspected, of his inheritance.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe