What's the difference between vandal and vandalism?

Vandal


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.
  • (a.) Alt. of Vandalic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (2) There could be no doubt who these deliberate vandals were, either: unelected members of the House of Lords, and the 48% of the country who failed to vote for Brexit.
  • (3) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (4) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
  • (5) They know the truth, as we did on Saturday, that the march really could be the start of a fightback against economic and social vandalism.
  • (6) Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.
  • (7) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
  • (8) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
  • (9) A cost-benefit analysis indicated that potential savings, primarily in reduced vandalism but also in reduced police and fire costs, greatly exceeded the cost of mounting the program.
  • (10) In response to Rousseff's promises and concerns about the vandalism that followed clashes with police, the organisers plan to set new guidelines for the protests.
  • (11) In the micro-economics of obscure music promotion the vandalism of a cloth cyclops dispenser could be the point at which your break-even point disappears over the event horizon.
  • (12) The chief of public security said that such acts of vandalism did not come under the definition of freedom of expression protected by the law.
  • (13) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
  • (14) There’s no graffiti, no vandalism and scarcely any crime.
  • (15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
  • (16) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
  • (17) This violence and vandalism is disgraceful criminal behaviour.
  • (18) Public school vandalism was investigated with a sample of students in 7th through 12th grade.
  • (19) "This behaviour was criminal behaviour," said Johnson of the recent riots – but in the past his attitude to vandalism has been more nuanced.
  • (20) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.

Vandalism


Definition:

  • (n.) The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (2) There could be no doubt who these deliberate vandals were, either: unelected members of the House of Lords, and the 48% of the country who failed to vote for Brexit.
  • (3) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (4) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
  • (5) They know the truth, as we did on Saturday, that the march really could be the start of a fightback against economic and social vandalism.
  • (6) Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.
  • (7) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
  • (8) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
  • (9) A cost-benefit analysis indicated that potential savings, primarily in reduced vandalism but also in reduced police and fire costs, greatly exceeded the cost of mounting the program.
  • (10) In response to Rousseff's promises and concerns about the vandalism that followed clashes with police, the organisers plan to set new guidelines for the protests.
  • (11) In the micro-economics of obscure music promotion the vandalism of a cloth cyclops dispenser could be the point at which your break-even point disappears over the event horizon.
  • (12) The chief of public security said that such acts of vandalism did not come under the definition of freedom of expression protected by the law.
  • (13) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
  • (14) There’s no graffiti, no vandalism and scarcely any crime.
  • (15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
  • (16) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
  • (17) This violence and vandalism is disgraceful criminal behaviour.
  • (18) Public school vandalism was investigated with a sample of students in 7th through 12th grade.
  • (19) "This behaviour was criminal behaviour," said Johnson of the recent riots – but in the past his attitude to vandalism has been more nuanced.
  • (20) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.