vandalism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: van=dal=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

vandalism, n. 

 The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of any object of beauty or value.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vandalism, n. wilful or malicious destruction or damage to works of art or other property.

Derivative

vandalistic adj. vandalistically adv.

THESAURUS

vandalism

acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, badness, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodbath, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, blue ruin, breakup, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnage, consumption, cruelness, cruelty, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, devastation, discourtesy, disintegration, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disruption, disruptiveness, dissolution, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, frowned-upon behavior, furiousness, harshness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hooliganism, horseplay, impetuosity, impropriety, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, murderousness, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, perdition, pitilessness, ravage, rigor, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, shambles, sharpness, slaughter, spoliation, terrorism, truculence, undoing, ungentleness, vehemence, venial sin, venom, vice, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing

ROGET THESAURUS

vandalism

Vulgarity

N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.