What's the difference between plunderer and spoiler?

Plunderer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plunders or pillages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
  • (2) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
  • (3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
  • (4) But as more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela , an Opec nation that was already one of the world’s most violent countries.
  • (5) The French are no longer colonisers, or imperialists, or even plundering racists.
  • (6) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (7) Most newspapers were excoriating, for instance, about the failure of the City's self-regulating bodies to blow the whistle on Robert Maxwell's plunder of the Mirror pension fund .
  • (8) Kiir has accused government officials of plundering at least $4bn (£2.6bn) from state coffers over seven years.
  • (9) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
  • (10) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
  • (11) Mila D Aguilar , 67, poet, Quezon City Facebook Twitter Pinterest Krip Yuson ‘Many Filipinos still bear the scars of his plundering’ He should definitely not have been buried in the LNMB.
  • (12) With billions of dollars worth of assets of Muammar Gaddafi frozen by the UN and member countries, and other legal moves to recover the wealth of deposed autocrats such as Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the drive to seize billions plundered by corrupt leaders has never been higher.
  • (13) Yet Joe Ledley’s handball might have earned United a penalty of their own after the interval before Ibrahimovic plundered the winner the visitors’ dominance merited .
  • (14) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
  • (15) In the past few years they had seen Ben Ali and his family and friends become extremely rich by plundering the nation.
  • (16) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
  • (17) Field’s parliamentary investigation concluded that BHS had been systematically plundered.
  • (18) The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected.
  • (19) For my part – plundering singles by Artful Dodger, by Semisonic – I have a memory of actually looking over my shoulder.
  • (20) The question is, why haven't the moon's resources been thoroughly plundered by now?

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.

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