predatory

adjective

1. 1

   living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

   predatory capitalists

   a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott

2. 2

   living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

   a predatory bird

   the rapacious wolf

3. 3

   characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

   bands of marauding Indians

   predatory warfare