Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding:
— Predatory warfare.

synoniemen: marauding, raiding.

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey:
— A predatory bird.

synoniemen: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous.

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; privative^†, prehensile; predaceous, predal^†, predatory, predatorial^†; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.    bereft etc. 776.    ... meer laten zien

Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain:
— Predatory capitalists.
— A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal.

synoniemen: predaceous, predacious.

Roget 791: thieving etc. v.; thievish, light-fingered; furacious^†, furtive; piratical; predaceous, predal^†, predatory, predatorial^†; raptorial etc. (rapacious) 789.    stolen etc. v.. ... meer laten zien