vandalism

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for vandalism.

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Editorial note

It would be interesting to attempt a formal quantification of vandalism received by different projects susceptible to it.

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Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for vandalism.

noun

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

Example sentences

It would be interesting to attempt a formal quantification of vandalism received by different projects susceptible to it.

I do not support malice or vandalism, but there is no indication that a system is misconfigured merely because it does not have password protection.

And depending on the nature of the issue, it may be treated as intentional vandalism.

This is largely due to copper-theft and vandalism of exchanges/cellular base-stations (which are oversubscribed enough that wireless technologies routinely sustain 3000-20000ms latencies).

It's way faster at responding to incorrect edits (be they errors/mistakes/vandalism), in my experience.

Then it doesn't become tragedy of commons, but rather an experiment with vandalism.

This is going to be used for very creative, disruptive and disturbing vandalism.

Having worked in a first world school I was surprised by the lack of vandalism and theft.

Is vandalism, assault or other crimes now further up on the to-do list?

It's vandalism and theft from a private company, and it inconvenienced customers.

Re: vandalism The building had no access controls at all.

If you then commit that crime (whether it's theft, vandalism, destruction of property, etc.) you are usually charged with that other crime alongside the burglary charge.

Quote examples

"Wikipedia's administration is far from perfect, but you have to give them one thing: the amount of vandalism they've had to deal with is of historical proportions." Simple vandalism is more or less under control.

"To someone with no capital or prospects a hitchhiking robot is a cruel joke, and to destroy it is an act of resistance." Give me a break, I grew up in a poorer place with worse health care and that is an act of vandalism and people who haven't been taught decent values.

> My site, Newslines, aims to take away all Wikipedia's news and biography pages "Take away" is an odd turn of phrase: You're of course free to mirror them and to update the mirrors as much as you like (within reason), but that won't remove them from Wikipedia's own servers, and any attempt to do that would rightly be seen as vandalism and stopped.