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Vandals

Speech parts

1. Vandals - Noun

2. Vandals - Proper noun

Meaning

An east Germanic tribe that once lived in north Africa and sacked Rome.

(archaic, historical) Any of various Balto-Slavic peoples, such as the Vistula Veneti, Wends, Lusatians or Poles.

Vandals

plural of Vandal; members of the Vandal tribe.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. Ken Thompson

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. Banksy

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle. Bob Dylan

It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago.They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped. John Humphrys

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess. Mindy Kaling

The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked. Ken Thompson

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