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Predaceous

adjective

Hunting and killing other animals for food. Synonym: predacious.

Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. Synonyms: predacious, predatory. "A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal" , "A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"

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... powers and qualities that rarely go together. Thus, he has both physical and moral courage in a degree rare in history. He can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, and he can confront with equal coolness and determination the predaceous corporations and money ...

— Camping with President Roosevelt • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Predaceous" : predatory, predacious, carnivorous, acquisitive