predatory
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1. predatory - Adjective
2. predatory - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.