plunderousadj.
/ˈplʌnd(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈplənd(ə)rəs/ Given to plundering; characterized by or involving plunder.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective]
ravenousc1425
rapinous1484
polling1526
spoiling1565
predatory1589
pilling1590
spoilful1590
plundering1641
vulturian1659
predatitious1660
pillagingc1670
vulturine1721
predal1737
depredatory1771
spoliatory1790
predatorial1791
plunderous1797
spoliating1840
accipitral1842
despoiling1859
spoliative1875
predative1920
prehensile1927
1797 Let. upon State of Parties 10 These principles, these plunderous hopes, are the secret links in the great chain of anarchy.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 167 Royalism and plunderous Rupertism.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. vii. 202 A foolish love for their horses makes them astonishingly plunderous of forage.
1944 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 9 190/1 He and his ‘road agents’ are known to have killed one hundred and two men in their plunderous activities.
1977 Evening News 4 June 5/4 William Palmer..made a plunderous visit to the treasury.
2002 Financial Times (Nexis) 28 Feb. 18 A Blackbeard-like hermit living nearby, who remembers the family's plucky, plunderous past.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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