predacious

Adjective
  1. Hunting and killing other animals for food (synset 300314808)
    similar to: carnivorous - (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals
    same as: predaceous
  2. Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain (synset 300030911)
    "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
    similar to: acquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
    same as: predaceous, predatory

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