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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
originBorrowed from French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. By surface analysis, vandal + -ism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- navaids 11
- vandals 11
- mavins 11
- maidans 10
- divans 10
- navaid 10
- vandal 10
- vandas 10
- viands 10
- malva 10
- mavin 10
- mavis 10