Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Bands of marauding Indians. Predatory warfare. A raiding party.
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
source: WordNet 3.0
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Predatory capitalists. A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal. A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster.
