Predatory Definition
predatory
- adjective
- characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
- 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"
- 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
"Predatory" in song lyrics
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"first national assurance predatory"
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"option one mortgages is it predatory"
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"real estate broker predatory"
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Words that rhyme with predatory
Usage tips for "predatory"
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