Predatory - Definition
predatory
adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
"bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a
raiding party" [syn: marauding, predatory, raiding]
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" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial,
ravening, vulturine, vulturous]
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 [syn: predaceous, predacious,
predatory]