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cannibalistic

ADJECTIVE
man-eating
Synonyms


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Yet even if not by design, “Night of the Living Dead” gave audiences something new, and enduring, to fear: reanimated corpses insatiable in their cannibalistic appetites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

But Green, who oversaw that recovery project, said the bog bush cricket would be more difficult to rear because it can be cannibalistic and has a longer, two-year life cycle.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

If to be copied can bring death upon the original, this is never more true than in the cannibalistic relationship between art and life.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

With LuPone’s perversely opportunistic Mrs. Lovett reviewing the prospective cannibalistic menu, his Sweeney perfectly complemented her cockeyed humor with his own savage drollery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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