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Predatory
Predatory meaning
Of, or relating to a predator. | Living by preying on other living animals. | Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
Synonyms of Predatory
Example sentences (20)
Some evidence also suggests the presence of predatory trigonotarbid arachnoids and myriapods in Late Silurian facies. citation Predatory invertebrates would indicate that simple food webs were in place that included non-predatory prey animals.
A JUDGE has called for a risk assessment on a predatory rapist and armed robber who attacked a schoolgirl in Ballingry.
As a former counter-terror chief he says the same work that goes on there - ranking which individuals present the most risk to the public - can be applied to predatory male offenders.
British corporations likewise have been regularly accused of predatory behaviour in Africa, especially within the energy sector.
Combined with scaly lips, our findings suggest that predatory dinosaurs may have had softer-looking faces and mouths than we’re used to.
He lives in a hostile and predatory world.
Her power for peace liberated half of Europe and kept Stalin’s predatory advance at bay.
Ian Watkins found fame and fortune as frontman for the rock band Lostprophets until he was unmasked as a drug-crazed predatory paedophile.
In her new post as the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) first director of safeguarding, Brandon is leading an increased effort to protect athletes from predatory coaches—and others—on the women’s professional tennis tour.
It comes after a damning MailOnline investigation which also laid bare the predatory tactics some retailers and vape manufactures are using to target kids.
It feels all schools are predatory today.
It was a predatory goal from the edge of the box.
Jim Mowbray senior Crown prosecutor for CPS North West said: “Paul Whittaker demonstrated compulsive and predatory behaviour when he targeted care homes in order to perform sex acts for staff to see.
Mr. Doe then attempted to enter Wigglesworth to meet this sneaky link, but was stopped by a Yard Securitas officer who informed him of the recent U.S. Court of Appeals ruling prohibiting predatory senior-frosh trysts.
Multiple states are acting to ban gender affirmation centers and are working to protect kids from the predatory behaviors of trans activism.
Our opponents are trying to make the case that the reduction in predatory lending in Illinois following the PLPA is hurting people.
Predatory Ned goes full creep-mode as he marvels over Julie's maturation and newfound adulthood, scanning her up and down.
Right now, that threat comes only in the form of a bill called the Stop Predatory Investing Act.
So it really gives those farmers the opportunity to expand their operations without predatory lending,” Singh says.
Sometimes, the crocs approached the speakers underwater, as if in predatory fashion, and some even bit the devices.