Predatory

What do we mean by predatory?

Living or characterized by preying on other animals. adjective

Living or characterized by plundering, pillaging, or marauding. adjective

Living or characterized by the exploitation of others for personal gain. adjective

Plundering; pillaging; living by rapine or preying.

Characterized by rapine; spent in plundering; devoted to pillaging.

In zoology, habitually preying upon other animals; carnivorous or insectivorous, as a mammal; rapacious or raptorial, as a bird; adephagous, as an insect.

Hungry; ravenous.

Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging adjective

Hungry; ravenous. adjective

Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. adjective

Of, or relating to a predator. adjective

Living by preying on other living animals. adjective

Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain. adjective

Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding adjective

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey adjective

Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain adjective

Of, or relating to a predator.

Living by preying on other living animals.

Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

Adjective for a very hurtful roast. Urban Dictionary

The degree of an individual's desire, or ability, to bring about intoxication in another individual for the purpose of relocating said individual to his or her predator basement Urban Dictionary

Praying on the young and naive girls over the consenting age. Telling them such things as a backdoor santa or baltimore break in are standard sexual moves, thus improving the human gene pool using Darwins theory of evolution with a new generation of sexy young ladies with an outstanding sexual back catalogue who are more than willing as they don't know any better Urban Dictionary

As in to hunt, what a preditor does. Urban Dictionary

A word that an idiot say to make him sound smart. It has no meaning and idiot only uses it. Urban Dictionary

A gay person, typically male, who goes after straight people despite knowing that they are straight. Tends to believe “there’s no such thing as a straight person” and “people will do anything for $20”. Tries to convert heterosexual people to homosexual people, giving the LGBTQ+ Community a bad reputation. See James Charles. Urban Dictionary

The practice of selling a product at a very low price with the sole intention of driving competitors out of business only to jack the price way up after you eliminate the competition. Urban Dictionary

A person who lurks around corners and in break rooms at work with the soul purpose of trapping you into long, boring conversations. The talker will often stalk you, ask you a meaningless question, the answer to which they could care less about, and before you can even respond begin a one sided, often insanely idiotic monologue, thereby trapping you into a pointless conversation and wasting hours of precious life. Note: The predatory talker is not technically a person, they are an asshole, and should be treated as such. Urban Dictionary

Phrase. Used to describe the splicing, mixing, or overlay of raw recorded audio or video files to create, augment, or twist the narrative of the original event. A re-contextualizing of key words, phrases, or images to influence the opinions of viewers or listeners. Individuals or groups can be targeted using this device, often with malicious intent. Example: predatory editing is commonly used by Bachelor or Bachelorette series editors to portray certain individuals as "villains" or "good guys" to boost show ratings. Urban Dictionary

The act of a woman secretly going off the pill in hopes of having her unknowing partner impregnate her and trapping him with a paternity suit and/or child support nine months later. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to predatory:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word predatory:
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Words that rhyme with predatory:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe predatory:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective predatory:
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Words that sound like predatory:
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