PREDATORY

adj. 1 predacious or predaceous, carnivorous, preying, raptorial Despite domestication, dogs and cats are predatory animals 2 rapacious, ravenous, plundering, robbing, pillaging, marauding, despoiling, looting, piratical, vulturine, avaricious, greedy, voracious, larcenous, thieving, extortionate, usurious Predatory pirates once ravaged the Mediterranean Keep out of the hands of predatory money-lenders, my son.