(adj) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey, Syn. ravening, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous, rapacious, Example:a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal
(adj) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; ; - Peter S. Prescott; - W.E.Swinton, Syn. predacious, predatory, Example:predatory capitalists; a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal; a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster