predatory

adjeating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience

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adj eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience

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acquisitive

adjective. eager to obtain knowledge or things

avaricious

adjective. greedy

carnivorous

adjective. eating animal flesh

larcenous

adjective. thievish

Word Origin & History

1580s, "involving plundering," from Latin praedatorius "pertaining to plunder," from praedator "plunderer," from praedor "to plunder," from praeda "prey" (see prey (n.)). Of animals, from 1660s.

Example Sentences for predatory

His courage might have been predatory, for he certainly liked to eat lobster.

See here, this creature, imperfect as it is, represents the predatory machine.

But you can't take a predatory, savage pirate and love him into decency!

It was the evening before his return to school, and there was a predatory look in his eye.

What remembrances does this imply of the hunt, what of the predatory dark?

We did not come for the purpose of punishing these predatory hordes.

They married and indulged in drinking bouts and predatory expeditions.

The magistrate put an end to its predatory career with a shot-gun.

For, at that time, Leonora appeared to her as a cruel and predatory beast.

Of the bears, and other predatory beasts, she spoke carelessly.

predatory

Synonyms for predatory

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acquisitive

avaricious

carnivorous

ferocious

larcenous

more thieving

predatory

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avaricious

carnivorous

ferocious

larcenous

more thieving

Synonyms for predatory

acquisitive