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. Pilar Clark:

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

2. Noam Chomsky:

   Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

3. Diane Yentel:

   There is a tremendous power imbalance in our housing system that tilts heavily in favor of landlords at the expense of low-income and other marginalized renters, putting families at greater risk of housing instability and homelessness and fueling racial inequity. one unfortunate omission from the White House Blueprint is any administrative action to hold corporate landlords accountable for egregious, predatory and often unlawful behavior during and since the pandemic.

4. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   These companies should be using their cash reserves to help their employees not to acquire more power. If we don't stop predatory MAs now, the actions of big corporations will have decades-long economic consequences.

5. Lindsay Zanno:

   Theropods were ready understudies for vacant top predator niches when large-bodied crocs and their relatives bowed out, predatory dinosaurs went on to fill these roles exclusively for the next 135 million years.