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Перевод: vandal

[прилагательное]
варварский;
[существительное]
варвар ; вандал ; хулиган

Тезаурус:

1. A little vandal.
2. 3 An unidentified vandal drew a Hitler moustache on the portrait of Maggie Thatcher in the Commons tea-room. 4 The Roman Catholic Church finally admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo for saying that Earth orbited around the Sun, in 1633. 5 Following the Windsor Castle fire, it was suggested the Queen might move into Prince Andrew's house Sunninghill, nicknamed "Tesco's" by the Daily Star.
3. The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it, and to rebuild what is left of her life, is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment, for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants - the return of her husband - but you will feel, as we all do when faced with the bereaved, that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal, showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure.
4. Heretics posed a more serious problem, but, happily, after the elimination of the aggressively Arian Vandal kingdom in North Africa, and the conversion of the Arian Goths and Burgundians to Catholicism, it ceased to be a pressing practical one.
5. The Ideal had to close down, and a vandal's brick made it the Id al, which spelled the end of an era.
6. Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal, and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers, and who had wanted to excavate round the stones.
7. As Marcus Binney and David Pearce put it: "since its establishment in 1947 British Rail has acquired for itself an all too deserved reputation as the biggest corporate vandal and iconoclast Britain has seen since the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries".
8. An image came into her head: of Gazzer's spray can dropping out of his pocket and clunking across the floor of the kiosk: a little vandal who went round spraying his name everywhere.
9. "Tapestries Slashed", ran a dramatic headline in one paper; in fact, the would-be vandal had scarcely taken her scissors out of her pocket before Mrs Gardner swooped on her and called the police.
10. Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal, factory unit or traffic warden.
11. Like Simon said, he was just a vandal who liked spoiling things.
12. The pot, vandal and squirrel-proof and kept cool by the earth, preserves them perfectly.
13. With his preening narcissism, braggard mouth and stylistic quirks, he was viewed as a vandal of ring tenets and etiquette.