predacious

Example Sentences

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She’s predacious, conflicted, at times disorganized — and ultimately unknowable.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

The picture tells the story of a young woman, Danae, who’s been locked in a high tower by her father to keep her away from predacious men.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

She feels shut out by the city’s predacious, moneyed tribes, battered by its “impenetrable shapes” and “fierce elbows.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020

Indigenous birds include the black-necked stilt, the claw-footed nene, the short-eared owl and the blue-faced booby, and there are such unique fauna as the monk seal, the hoary bat and the predacious caterpillar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer