1. predatory - Adjective
2. predatory - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis
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. Winston Churchill
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. Andrea Dworkin
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. Orrin Hatch
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. Thomas Perry
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott