What's the difference between despoiler and spoiler?
Despoiler
Definition:
(n.) One who despoils.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despoiled of its land through a series of racial colonial measures, Zimbabwe at independence inherited a gross skew in land ownership.
(2) We have run up debts, despoiled the planet and allowed too many of our institutions to wither.
(3) Sir David Attenborough, who recently discussed climate change in a meeting with US president Barack Obama, said: “I have been involved in arguments about the despoilation of the natural world for many years.
(4) Victors like to forget how they got their spoils, but the despoiled have long memories.
(5) Despoiling of the dead is illegal under the Geneva conventions as well as under US military law.
(6) Thousands of tonnes despoiled the beaches of Cornwall – and thousands more were propelled by winds and currents across the channel towards France.
(7) And, in his case, quite a few headlines created to fit the paper's narrative of minorities in general and Muslims in particular as bad lots, despoilers of society.
(8) From early, delicate watercolours to his cycles of despoiled paintings, this retrospective gives full measure to Kiefer’s preoccupations with German history, the holocaust, mythology and the wretchedness of our age.
(9) Fracking has been linked to air and water pollution, radioactive waste, despoiled land and methane emissions, although this has been disputed by some scientists and the fracking industry.
(10) Deficits in abstractive ability, when they exist, are believed to be due to a schizophrenic patient's inability to prevent task-irrelevant information that originates in long-term memory from spilling into and despoiling the operations of working memory.
(11) For too long the governments of the region, often with international encouragement, have looked upon the sea as a bottomless resource pit to be despoiled at will.
(12) The Guardian feared the icon would be despoiled – as if the World Service audience would be treated to a steady diet of stories about car crashes on the M25 instead of analyses of Indian politics.
(13) How you can take on their surface effects – the black turtleneck, listening to Bob Dylan, friends with Bono – yet still pay your Chinese workers a pitiful amount, despoil the environment, do shady stock transactions, pay no tax.” Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine first look review – Apple founder's sour side Read more Gibney says Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell initially offered to help with the project but then backed off.
(14) So extensive is the rout of pre-modern spiritual and metaphysical traditions that it is hard to even imagine their resurrection, let alone the restoration, on a necessarily large scale, of a non-instrumental view of human life (and the much-despoiled natural world).
(15) Poundbury is a de luxe version of the gross and insensitive "executive" homes that so despoil Britain.
(16) And it's all done without despoiling so much as a blade of grass.
(17) It was the worst spill in Nigeria in 13 years in a part of that country where the oil and gas industry has been despoiling the environment for more than 50 years, on a scale that dwarfs the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico by a wide margin.
Spoiler
Definition:
(n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
(n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fabius denied that he had acted as a spoiler at the talks.
(2) Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is due out in May, has also come under fire for revealing further apparent spoilers.
(3) These days, Obama has moved on to more pressing issues, like telling House of Cards fans not to tweet any spoilers.
(4) A skiiing style in backward lean position was adopted and supported by the fixed backward spoiler.
(5) UN officials said in advance they hoped new commitments from the big industrialised states, such as Japan and China, would prod other countries into action so that they not be seen as the spoilers of a potential deal at Copenhagen.
(6) Spoiler alert: key plot details follow Seth Rogen was forced to tone down a Kim Jong-un death scene for his new comedy The Interview following a personal intervention by the Japanese head of Sony’s parent company, according to hacked emails.
(7) The sort of person who, despite having a framed Keep Calm and Carry On poster on their wall, gets vociferously morally outraged by 25 different things over the course of the average morning on Twitter, eg Daily Mail headlines, anything Jeremy Clarkson says, people who post Homeland spoilers, Parcelforce delivery slots, etc.
(8) Momentum on the political track was key, he said, to get ahead of any spoilers: “Don’t be surprised if there are rhetorical, dismissive and aggressive statements.
(9) Instead – spoiler alert – to the disdain of many, it opted for a more satisfying, upbeat conclusion.
(10) The beam spoiler with the frame stands near the patient during the treatment.
(11) Surely, as some speculate, he is a spoiler (consciously or otherwise) to help his friend Hillary Clinton.
(12) The official said that if the new diplomatic push for a negotiated settlement of the impasse over Iran's nuclear programme, – due to begin at the end of this month with a new round of talks involving six world powers and Tehran – shows signs of progress, the risk of a "spoiler" incident, aimed at torpedoing that effort, would increase.
(13) SPOILER ALERT: This blog discusses plot points from Freak Show, the fourth season of American Horror Story.
(14) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
(15) Strong off-odours are produced on boiled shrimp by the "typical shrimp spoilers" (presumptive Altermonas).
(16) Do you really need a spoiler alert if I say “Guess the ending?” The best books I have read recently are the ones that resist the simplistic love-cures-all conclusions.
(17) With the sequel set 10 years on from the events of the first film, which – *spoiler alert* – saw the majority of the human race catch a bad case of the simian flu, the likely assumption was that Franco's character would have quickly perished.
(18) But it adds an extra dimension by intercutting these scenes with documentary material, most notably – spoiler alert!
(19) The BBC accused ITV, which tried to buy The Voice format for itself, of bringing Britain's Got Talent forward from its usual April launch date as a spoiler.
(20) But the build up and hype were huge, and since it has started screening, people have been paranoid about spoilers.