predacity

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He also had the noisy energy of a stern-wheeler and the predacity of a buccaneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The joking habit extended as far down as Florence, even as Siena, and at Naples I had found cabmen who tempered their predacity with bonhomie.

From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean

A thieving fox will grow fat by predacity while an honest dog starves in the path of duty.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

The old line life insurance fake is the most colossal scheme of predacity known to human history.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

They partake of the predaceous and destructive character of the adjoining sub-typical group, and the means of their predacity are generally found in the mouth alone. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert