Pillaged in a sentence as an adjective

I hate to think of that being pillaged by greedy capitalists.

The word "right" doesn't refer to "we've always raped and pillaged after we won a war, so that gives us a right to keep on doing it." I agree with that 100%.

Any settlement nearby will be pillaged. So if you have a garden, better be prepared to defend it.

To this day they continue to be raped and pillaged by their government. The only way you can characterize them is thugs, thieves and gangsters.

Also, the fact that you mention 'nordics make good neighbors' in the same comment as acknowledging that nordics raped and pillaged my people for hundreds of years. .

For example, the vikings raped and pillaged. I'm pretty sure they didn't have porn available to motivate them.

The word "right" doesn't refer to "we've always raped and pillaged after we won a war, so that gives us a right to keep on doing it." I don't think you are philosophically equipped to use the word "right" here.

I'm sure Bush was praising the Lord as he set the war machine in motion, or Bernanke saying a humble prayer as he pillaged the wealth of the middle class. Ah, the land of Christian principles.

Sakhalin was the trigger, and their worst fears were confirmed when the soviets raped and pillaged their way through the island, killing some 20,000 civvies. Atrocious.

Ireland, which had been pillaged by Britain for hundreds of years, was starting from a much lower base after independence than Scotland will be.

Com which streams to the US. The children of the communists that once ruled basically raped and pillaged BG for anything left. And spent 100 million on surveillance/spying equipment.

Firstly, this is not an instance of a company being pillaged by an activist investor. Icahn is not assuming control of the company, he's trying to make them change direction.

Look at most of Europe after the second world war, particularly after the soviets pillaged everything.

Malnutrition has been an endemic problem in Bolivia since the Spaniards pillaged its mineral wealth. This does little to improve things.

The public treasury will be literally pillaged. Everyone will have good reasons to prove that legal fraternity should be interpreted in this sense: "Let me have the benefits, and let others pay the costs."

I always tell my Russian colleagues that it's the natural outcome of not having a 3,000 year history of being pillaged by Cossacks and Mongols, and that they should try it some time.

The fact that culturally most people seem to see neighboring countries as either outright provinces, historical vassals that should be in their sphere of influences, or monsters that deserve to be raped and pillaged to account for past crimes doesn't help things. Not to say the same thing doesn't occur in my country.

We've raped and pillaged nations, and supported countries which still engage in slavery - for our own economic benefit. Technology could bring a high standard of living for everyone on the planet - but not with our current capitalist system, which uses technology to transfer more wealth from the poor to the rich.

I'm sorry, but in a time when invading armies raped, pillaged, and killed at their own discretion, defending and thus staying alive is a much higher priority than saving your library. Especially when surrendering to the invaders would probably have gotten the library ransacked & burned anyway.

Are you honestly not aware that most of Africa was pillaged and plundered for centuries by European powers that greatly benefited from African resources - human and physical? Yet you expect Africa should recover from centuries of oppression without any assistance?

Pillaged definitions

adjective

wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"

See also: looted plundered ransacked

adjective

having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"

See also: despoiled raped ravaged sacked