Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.
1 Parasites and predacious insects usually keep it in fair control.
2 The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
3 And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
4 She ignored the predacious ephemera flashing through the weeds.
5 He began to introduce domesticated animals, and that meant a thinning of the ranks of predacious creatures.
6 We accept that fast bowlers, predacious by nature, like to prowl in twosome pursuit of a kill.
7 The morphological development of these traps is the key indicator of their switch from saprophytic to predacious lifestyles.
8 The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.
9 They are the most formidable predacious mammals of the Antarctic seas, and annually account for large numbers of seals, penguins, and other cetaceans.
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