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Significats de predacious en anglès

Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.

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Examples for "predatory"
Examples for "predatory"
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Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
Boston noir
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Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
BBC
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An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
Grand junction
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Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
Reuters
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These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
The Guardian
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Late chickens cannot stand the heavy dews, or withstand the predaceous hawks.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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For Roth surmised that both these plants were, in their way, predaceous.
Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
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Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one!
The Natural History of Selborne
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The predaceous rascal came, as usual, in the latter half of the night.
Winter Sunshine
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We measured density responses of detritivorous, herbivorous and predaceous arthropods to the increased resource supply.
Pubmed
Ús de predacious en anglès
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Parasites and predacious insects usually keep it in fair control.
One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
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And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
Blood Meridian
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She ignored the predacious ephemera flashing through the weeds.
The last page
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He began to introduce domesticated animals, and that meant a thinning of the ranks of predacious creatures.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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We accept that fast bowlers, predacious by nature, like to prowl in twosome pursuit of a kill.
The Guardian
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The morphological development of these traps is the key indicator of their switch from saprophytic to predacious lifestyles.
Pubmed
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The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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They are the most formidable predacious mammals of the Antarctic seas, and annually account for large numbers of seals, penguins, and other cetaceans.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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