predacious

Adjective

• 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
    
  • a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster- W.E.Swinton
    

• hunting and killing other animals for food

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  predaceous , predatory