depredatory

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.