predatory

predatory
    adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
           "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a
           raiding party" [syn: {marauding}, {predatory}, {raiding}]
    2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching
       living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf";
       "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for
       offal" [syn: {predatory}, {rapacious}, {raptorial},
       {ravening}, {vulturine}, {vulturous}]
    3: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
       "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in
       which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S.
       Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological
       gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: {predaceous}, {predacious},
       {predatory}]
    

Predatory \Pred"a*to*ry\, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to
   plunder, fr. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
   1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
      plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a
      predatory party. "A predatory war." --Macaulay.
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   2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]
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            Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
            predatory.                            --Bacon.
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   3. (Zool.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "predatory":
      all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, bloodsucking,
      carnivorous, despoiling, extortionate, grabby, grasping, greedy,
      larcenous, looting, lupine, marauding, parasitic, pillaging,
      plundering, plunderous, predacious, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging,
      ravening, ravenous, robbing, sharkish, spoliatory, thieving,
      usurious, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish