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How to pronounce looter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms despoiler, freebooter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler
Type of stealer, thief
Has types buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover
Derivation loot

Examples of looter

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Soldiers arrest a looter Tuesday at a market in Hualpen, near Concepcion, Chile.
From the sltrib.com
Not one determined rioter or looter will be deterred by any of these sentences.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hunger pains can apparently turn even the most upstanding diplomat into a looter.
From the time.com
On one occasion, a policeman chasing a looter tripped over a television cable.
From the time.com
She walks around waving a white flag so that no one mistakes her for a looter.
From the edition.cnn.com
When he protested, one looter pulled out a huge knife and racially abused him.
From the guardian.co.uk
The fifth was a looter who is believed to have been shot by another looter.
From the economist.com
The Giants are not being handed this thing, they're grabbing it like a greedy looter.
From the sfgate.com
Paradoxically, it is easier at the moment to contact an unconvicted looter than a judge.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Plunderer: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
  • Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting...
  • The Looter is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in the Spider-Man comic books published by Marvel Comics.
  • One who loots, who steals during a general disturbance such as a riot or natural disaster
  • (Looters) people who carry off or steal goods during a war or disaster
  • An individual who plunders archaeological sites to find artifacts of commercial value, thereby destroying the area of the site the objects came from and their archaeological context.