The word 'vandalism' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the deliberate destruction of property. Example sentence: The police are investigating the case of vandalism on the historic building.
But there has to be one, because although most squatters just need somewhere to live and often maintain mouldering, neglected buildings and save them from terminal collapse and vandalism, what about the few really naughty squatters, who make a mess and noise, pretend to be artists and pinch your home while you're on hols or in hospital?
"An act of vandalism suspends Rayo-Madrid: a group of barbarians cut the cable".
People found guilty of antisocial behaviour, vandalism, gambling or going to strip clubs will be placed on the list for two years and will face additional, unspecified punishments.
It is, says Alawi, just the latest move in a series of state-endorsed acts of cultural vandalism, urged on by the hardline wahhabist sect, which perceives historic sites and the veneration of the prophet as encouraging sinful idolatry.
To let French studies go the way of classics – a museum piece for specialists – would not only be an act of cultural vandalism, but also a direct attack on the premise of social mobility in Britain.
However, the rioting, looting, vandalism and assaults from Croydon to Manchester should be placed in some context.
Ed Miliband today accuses the coalition government of "cultural vandalism" over university tuition fees as he seeks to reinvigorate his struggling leadership and exploit the growing crisis in Liberal Democrat ranks on higher education.
Police said that five of the six had admitted responsibility for the vandalism and had been released.
Famous garden cemeteries, like Highgate, built as a sanitary commercial alternative to foul local burial grounds in the 1830s, filled up, failed to pay dividends to shareholders, and fell into disrepair during the 20th century, suffering from theft, vandalism and general indifference.
But 120 years ago, John Ruskin - who thought Monsal Dale "divine as the Vale of Tempe" - denounced the viaduct as the vandalism of fools who wanted to travel between Bakewell and Buxton in half an hour.
Today the 35-year-old director makes no apologies for his acts of creative vandalism.
