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predacious

adjective as in meat-eating

adjective as in preying

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

It quoted from the letter, in which staff members complained to Adidas about "the toxic and chaotic environment that Kanye West created" and "a very sick pattern of predacious behaviour toward women" who worked for him under the partnership.

From BBC

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.

Nonetheless, Emmy, with her beauty, talent and wit, could ignore her predecessor as she enjoyed the incredible riches bestowed on her by her predacious husband: several estates, castles, lavish jewels, and most notably an astonishing art collection accumulated from the Reich’s various conquests and from Jewish collectors who were sent to the camps.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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