predatory

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
  • "predatory warfare"
• living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
  • "a predatory bird"
• living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; ; - Peter S. Prescott; - W.E.Swinton
  • "predatory capitalists"
  • "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"

Adj

• Of, or relating to a predator.
• Living by preying on other living animals.
• Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

Examples

• predatory inclusion
• predatory lending

Synonyms

marauding, predaceous, predacious, raiding, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

Related Words

predaceous, predacious, predation, predator, prey