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But burning, rioting, and looting are disgraceful—and they make for real-life victims we somehow never hear about.

Rioting and looting ensued shortly after the verdict and racial tensions were tense across the United States for years to follow.

In January 1948, Spitz again fell under suspicion for his role in the looting of art in Europe during the war.

Faced with rampaging youths, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley issued a strict “shoot to kill” order to police to halt looting.

NOTE: D'Souza's quote from Newsmax compared ISIS to 'what's going on in Furgeson,' and beheading to looting.

Jutes And paid us visits in their ships Bent on their ruthless looting trips.

They are reported as engaged in looting the city and getting drunk on the contents of the bodegas.

From them we heard awful tales of massacres and looting during the Bolshevist domination over the Black Sea regions.

Naturally, after being the scene of so much looting and such massacres, there is little left of the original city of the caliphs.

The desert Arabs hovered like vultures in the distance waiting for nightfall to cover them in their looting.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to looting, such as: break in, burglary, embezzlement, felony, heist, and holdup.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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