predatory

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
  • bands of marauding Indians
    
  • predatory warfare
    
  • a raiding party
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  predaceous , predacious , rapacious , raptorial , ravening , vulturine , vulturous , marauding , raiding