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adj. 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

marauding, predatory, raiding

adj. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out

adj. extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"

predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

rapacious, ravening, voracious

adj. excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

insatiate, insatiable, unsatiable

adj. impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable"

knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out

adj. extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"

marauding, predatory, raiding

adj. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

accumulative

adj. marked by acquiring or amassing; "we live in an accumulative society"

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

possessive

adj. desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys"

plundering

adj. given to taking by force what is desired

rapacious, ravening, voracious

adj. excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

antipersonnel

adj. designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction

attack, assault

adj. "offensive weapons", "attack planes"

assaultive, attacking(a)

adj. disposed to attack

hit-and-run, tip-and-run

adj. designed for or consisting of a brief attack followed by a quick escape; "hit-and-run units"; "tip-and-run assaults"

incursive, invading, invasive

adj. involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war"

on the offensive(p)

adj. actively attacking

assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive, vigorous

adj. confidently aggressive; "too assertive as a salesman"; "his self-assertive and unflagging energy"

truculent

adj. defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

competitive, militant

adj. showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy"

hard-hitting, high-pressure

adj. aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"

hostile

adj. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid"

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