VANDALISM

[noun] [U]Beset by drug problems, prostitution, violence and vandalism, this is one of the most unpleasant areas in the city.These schools are known to be vulnerable to vandalism.Vandalism is also any activity that is considered to be damaging or destroying something that was good.Cutting down the hedges was an act of vandalism.They established a city conservation area in an effort to preserve what buildings were left after the vandalism of the seventies. [U]The advertising industry's use of classic songs is vandalism of popular culture, he said.