depredatory

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adj eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience

adjective. eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience

1620s, from Latin depredatus, past participle of depraedare "to pillage, ravage" (see depredation).

Yet the fact is that the high rate of exchange and the depredatory U-boat represented almost identically the same danger.

On many of his depredatory expeditions he had not hesitated to use the knife and the mutton-bone.

The other two players are—one a watchman or shepherd, and the other a wolf, fox, or other depredatory animal.

Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.