Vandalism

Noun

 * 1) Willful damage or destruction of any property with no other purpose than damage or destruction of said property.
 * As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism; spray-paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.

Synonyms

 * vandalization

Related terms

 * vandal
 * vandalise, vandalize

Thesaurus
acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, badness, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodbath, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, blue ruin, breakup, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnage, consumption, cruelness, cruelty, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, devastation, discourtesy, disintegration, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disruption, disruptiveness, dissolution, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, frowned-upon behavior, furiousness, harshness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hooliganism, horseplay, impetuosity, impropriety, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, murderousness, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, perdition, pitilessness, ravage, rigor, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, shambles, sharpness, slaughter, spoliation, terrorism, truculence, undoing, ungentleness, vehemence, venial sin, venom, vice, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing

Etymology
After the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: вандализъм
 * Catalan: vandalisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 故意破壞公物, 故意破坏公物 (gùyì pòhuài gōngwù)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: vandalismo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: vandalismi
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: βανδαλισμός
 * Hebrew: ונדליזם (Transliteration)
 * Hungarian: vandalizmus
 * Ido: vandaleso, vandalajo


 * Interlingua: vandalismo
 * Italian: vandalismo
 * Japanese:, ヴァンダリズム
 * Korean: 반달리즘
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: vandalism
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вандалізм
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: vandalöm
 * Welsh: fandaliaeth

Noun

 * 1) vandalism