depredator
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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was against the grain to condemn her as all bad, a depredator, a woman with perverted moral sense who broke the law and did evil things.
From The Passenger from Calais by Griffiths, Arthur
For shame, O sinful depredator, O defrauder of the poor!'
From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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
He was an old depredator; and had before encountered angry authors, and artful lawyers.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas