vandals

noun

plural of vandal
as in defacers
a person who damages or destroys property on purpose a group of vandals broke into the school and painted graffiti on the walls

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Recent Examples of vandals At least $343,100 is to be spent on surveillance after the president falsely blamed vandals for damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. — Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026 Overwhelmed police forces often failed to intervene as thousands of vandals, many wearing masks and caps that hid their faces, shattered storefront windows and walked off with merchandise. — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Manchester police say over the weekend, vandals wreaked havoc leaving several hateful, antisemitic, racist and homophobic slurs on people's property. — Paul Burton, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2026 Trump has claimed the pool was destroyed by vandals, but the report apparently makes no mention of any vandalism. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026 Trump has repeatedly insisted that the damage to the Reflecting Pool resulted from intentional vandalism, claiming that vandals cut a gash hundreds of feet long in the pool’s protective lining. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Ancil Hoffman Park in Carmichael is closed after vandals caused extensive damage throughout the regional park, according to Sacramento County officials. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026 When the sculpture appeared there, it was painted white by vandals. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character named Jevon Martinez isn’t afraid to show his face. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

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“Vandals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vandals. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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