Main entry: predaceous, predacious, predatory
Definition: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Usage: 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
Main entry: predaceous, predacious
Definition: hunting and killing other animals for food