predatory

Adjective
  1. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding (synset 301633893)
    "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
    similar to: offensive - for the purpose of attack rather than defense
    same as: marauding, raiding
  2. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey (synset 300084491)
    "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
    similar to: aggressive - having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
    same as: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
  3. 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, predacious

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