Synonyms for predatory
ˈprɛd əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr ipreda·to·ry

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1. predatory

   Synonyms:
   pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous

   Antonyms:
   guarding, keeping, watching, protecting

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1. marauding, predatory, raidingadjective

   characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

   "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, raiding, predaceous, ravening, vulturous

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, defensive, unaggressive, nonaggressive

2. predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturousadjective

   living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

   "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

   Synonyms:
   wolfish, rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, edacious, predaceous, raiding, vulturous

   Antonyms:
   unaggressive, unacquisitive, nonaggressive, defensive

3. predaceous, predacious, predatoryadjective

   living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

   "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

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous, raiding, predaceous

   Antonyms:
   defensive, nonaggressive, unacquisitive, unaggressive

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1. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   plundering, pillaging

2. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, ravenous, greedy, voracious, hungry, preying

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1. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   predaceous, plundering

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1. List of paraphrases for "predatory":

   predator, predaceous, predation, cricket

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How to use predatory in a sentence?

1. Maxine Waters:

   Hedge funds have a long history of predatory conduct and that conduct is entirely indefensible.

2. Kevin Sabet:

   Decriminalization begins the process of healing past harms while also forgoing the creation of a new, predatory industry keen on marketing extremely potent marijuana products.

3. Pilar Clark:

   'zoochosis' and premature death due to captivity, particularly in the case of highly intelligent predatory animals...can't be the only option.

4. Santa Cruz:

   We were able to meet up with the kayaker and get him out of the water and actually did determine that it was true predatory attack on a water craft, and, so out of an abundance of caution, we go ahead and posted in the beaches and have completely limited water access for the next four days.

5. David Feith:

   Strategic risk reduction can be good, but up to a point, akin to basic hygiene. The central issue is that Beijing is hostile, predatory and highly capable, so the US must organize to defend and push back across the board. The Joe Biden administration has said that they plan to do The Biden administration. So while setting up a phone line can be useful, we shouldn't sink too much significant into it.