PREDATORY

• (adj.) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

  "predatory capitalists", "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal", "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"

  synonyms : predaceous , predacious

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : rapacious , raptorial , ravening , vulturine , vulturous

• (adj.) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

  "bands of marauding Indians", "predatory warfare", "a raiding party"

  synonyms : marauding , raiding

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