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Predaceous   /pridˈeɪʃəs/   Listen
Predaceous

adjective
1.
Hunting and killing other animals for food.  Synonym: predacious.
2.
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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"Predaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... far more sprightly than Duncan's and less startling than Roland's. He had a self-confident air and a bit of swagger that filled the eye, but a face and a voice that detracted, the one too boldly good-looking, with eyes roving and predaceous, the other a suggestion too loud and domineering. ... I fear association with ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance


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


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