predacious

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The picture tells the story of a young woman, Danae, who’s been locked in a high tower by her father to keep her away from predacious men.

From New York Times

She feels shut out by the city’s predacious, moneyed tribes, battered by its “impenetrable shapes” and “fierce elbows.”

From New York Times

They’re predacious, eating whatever they can get their grubby hands on.

From Washington Times

Metastasis therefore requires the untethering of these bonds, to allow predacious cancer cells to migrate freely.

From Scientific American

This order is called Orthoptera, from their straight wings; it embraces several groups, cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, or locusts, etc., which are all injurious, except the Mantis, which is predacious, and therefore useful.

From Project Gutenberg