someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
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a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455
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Vandal \Van"dal\, Vandalic \Van*dal"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
Vandal \Van"dal\, n. [L. Vandalus, Vandalius; of Teutonic origin, and probably originally signifying, a wanderer. Cf. {Wander}.] 1. (Anc. Hist.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
2. Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
The Vandals of our isle, Sworn foes to sense and law. --Cowper.
The vandal painted the message, "This is for the convent." Worshippers saw the damage as they arrived Sunday night to mark the beginning of Yom Kippur, the most solemn Jewish holiday, at Warsaw's only synagogue that is next to the theater.
The vandal could be charged with criminal mischief, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Desmond Williams, an architect, said his firm designs or remodels schools and other buildings to resist vandal attacks.
The chief said he had hoped to catch a vandal who plugged a urinal on several occassions.
Now the weather and vandal damage to the hogan is far more severe, and it's unclear whether any of the murals can be saved.
A vandal at Moscow State University spilled ink on a memorial plaque to former Kremlin ideologue Mikhail A. Suslov.
"If I came too close, I felt off balance." One viewer felt downright unhinged: A knife-wielding vandal, said to have borne a grudge against modern art, sliced up the painting in 1986.