predatory
adjective
preying upon other organisms for food.
predatoriness
-
a word derived from
predatory.
Example Sentences
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He becomes more an abstraction of wealth and predatoriness.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
And that’s not just because he is, still, so passionately defended by some – including, most recently, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross – while he also, simultaneously, did so little to mask his predatoriness.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2019
In a general way we mean how our species’ excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
We have, in consequence, a society of thinly veneered predatoriness.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
I am not pleading for the predatory rich, but only for the well-meaning persons in moderately comfortable circumstances, whose predatoriness has been suddenly revealed to them.
From Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers
