predacious

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. hunting and killing other animals for foodSynonyms: predaceous
  2. 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”Synonyms: predaceouspredatory
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