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Word "PREDATORY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Synonyms:
marauding, raiding
Examples:
predatory warfare

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Synonyms:
rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
Examples:
a predatory bird

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Synonyms:
predaceous, predacious
Examples:
predatory capitalists
a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal

Crossword Clues for PREDATORY

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Badly portrayed, as shark is? The Times Quick Cryptic 29 Apr 2025
Party rode around living on prey (9)
Exploitative Mirror Quick 06 Mar 2025
Carnivorous padre upset politician Mirror Cryptic 06 Mar 2025
Predacious (9)
Descriptive of e.g. cormorants that hunt fish (9)
Badly portrayed as plundering (9)
Rapacious The Telegraph Quick 18 Nov 2024
Like loan sharks (and actual sharks)
Preying on others (9)
Exploiting others portrayed differently The Telegraph Toughie 12 Jul 2022
Prone to stalking Thomas Joseph 04 Feb 2021
Paired off, sacking one politician getting greedy The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Nov 2020
Pervert portrayed as exploitative
Living off other animals Irish Times Simplex 25 Apr 2019
Rapacious secretary squeezing leftist politician The Times Cryptic 13 Jul 2015
Rapacious
Preying upon other organisms
Rapacious
Rapacious
Rapacious
Given to plundering.
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