predatory

adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;

"bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a

raiding party" [syn: {marauding}, {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: {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}]