predatory, adj.
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
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predaceous predacious predatory
sample sentences
"predatory capitalists""a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott
"a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
semantic pointers
similar to
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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predatory rapacious raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous
sample sentences
"a predatory bird""the rapacious wolf"
"raptorial birds"
"ravening wolves"
"a vulturine taste for offal"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
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marauding predatory raiding
sample sentences
"bands of marauding Indians""predatory warfare"
"a raiding party"
semantic pointers
similar to