Adjective
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living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
"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
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living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
"a predatory bird"
"the rapacious wolf"
"raptorial birds"
"ravening wolves"
"a vulturine taste for offal"
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characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
"bands of marauding Indians"
"predatory warfare"
"a raiding party"