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predacious
adjective
Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
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adjective
Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
“Predatory capitalists”
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Hunting and killing other animals for food
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Predatory capitalists
{'source': 'Peter S. Prescott', 'text': 'a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal'}
{'source': 'W.E.Swinton', 'text': 'a predacious kind of animal — the early geological gangster'}
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