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He also had the noisy energy of a stern-wheeler and the predacity of a buccaneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

A thieving fox will grow fat by predacity while an honest dog starves in the path of duty.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

The joking habit extended as far down as Florence, even as Siena, and at Naples I had found cabmen who tempered their predacity with bonhomie.

From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean

They partake of the predaceous and destructive character of the adjoining sub-typical group, and the means of their predacity are generally found in the mouth alone. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

The old line life insurance fake is the most colossal scheme of predacity known to human history.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper