pillager

Example Sentences

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The name ‘Raiders’ has negative connotations — synonyms include pillager, warmonger and aggressor.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

He followed this up in 1989 with Erik the Viking, which starred Tim Robbins as a reluctant pillager, and was based on his own children’s book published in 1983.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020

My fruit-picking reference might make me sound like a pillager of the environment, out of tune with modern sensibilities, but that’s a problem with our metaphors, not with our reality.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2019

Even after he scored a worldwide hit in his first starring role, as a primeval pillager in Conan the Barbarian, he was still seen as a fluke or a freak.

From Time Magazine Archive

But go thou to the temple of Minerva the pillager, with victims, having assembled the matrons of distinction.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois