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Definition of predatory:
Synonyms:
awful, anthropoid, inhuman, brisk, hateful, wolfish, vulturine, greedy, raiding, articulate, business-to-business, acquisitive, predaceous, predacious, aquatic, uncharitable, anticompetitive, rapacious, evil, hard, monstrous, best-of-breed, offensive, all-night, big, bloodthirsty, androgynous, brick-and-mortar, amphibious, ravening, edacious, aggressive, business, pitiless, arboreal, bloated, collective, cruel, asexual, raptorial, marauding, ravenous, carnivorous, hungry, omnivorous, accredited, unkind, captive, voracious, vulturous, caged, esurient.
Usage examples:
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All the predatory rabble joined themselves to the patriots or confederates; they hired hordes who went plundering about the country and fell upon small cities and German villages.
- "Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II.", Gustav Freytag. -
The predatory Wasps killed their prey at first by stabbing it at random, here and there, in the softest parts.
- "More Hunting Wasps", J. Henri Fabre. -
Earl Erik himself had been a valiant viking in his youth, and probably could see no harm in the careless and predatory life in which the old Germanic paganism found its most characteristic expression.
- "The Story of Norway", Hjalmar H. Boyesen.