predatory

[ˈpredətri] [ˈpredətɔːri]
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  • Adjective
    1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
    "bands of marauding Indians""predatory warfare""a raiding party"
    2. 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"
    3. 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