Predatory is valid Scrabble Word

Is predatory a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PREDATORY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

preying on other animals
(of an animal) preying naturally on others
seeking to exploit others
habitually hunting and killing other animals for food
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or practicing plunder, pillage, or rapine; inclined or intended to injure or exploit others for personal gain or profit

Words related to PREDATORY

predatorily17 predatoriness16 raptatorial13

Words that contain PREDATORY

depredatory18 antipredatory19

How to use PREDATORY in a sentence

We know but little of the details of the various conflicts until Britain was finally won by these predatory tribes of barbarians.
Due to the duplicity of this same bunch of predatory gentlemen the airplane and ship building program of the United States turned out to be a scandal instead of a success.
Its petty tribes would then be constantly engaged in predatory wars against each other for the purpose of seizing slaves to supply the American market.
He made no attempt at pursuit, acknowledging his mistake with an easy shrug and turning off to roam, a dim, predatory figure, along the dusky street.
Sakhajee established himself at Colaba, while Sumbhajee Angria remained at Severndroog, to carry on the predatory policy of their father.
Stimcoe waged a predatory war, and waged it without quarter.
The Scots commenced hostilities by some predatory incursions into the northern counties of England in 1295-96.
What a world it was, and how terrible that every other man seemed to be a predatory animal, ready to spring upon his neighbor and wrest anything he had away from him.
To their wandering, predatory life the whole family were perfectly accustomed.
But his predatory acts had at last forced him to flee for his life, and no one knew whither he had gone.

Most extraordinary accounts are given of their hardihood, and of their fierce and predatory habits.
No sooner had he heard of the death of David and of Joab than he returned, and seems to have kept up a kind of predatory warfare during the reign of Solomon.
From the days of Constantine to the days of Bismarck and Mark Hanna, Christ and Caesar have been one, and the Church has been the shield and armor of predatory economic might.
In some of our Western states, a bounty was offered for the scalps of wolves, so as to lessen the number of these predatory foes of sheep.
Stress of experience and emotion has been known to modify sensibly her predatory characteristics.
Less honest Socialist orators as the result of long experience have therefore adopted the more effectual policy of appealing to the predatory instincts of the crowd.
But we shall never get it until the military forces of Germany are broken, and the predatory Potsdam gang which rules them is brought low.
On both sides the contest at this time assumed the features of a predatory warfare.
Numbers will repair to us for safety and we will then try a predatory war.
This arrangement safeguards the home from predatory enemies.
They should rather be interpreted by the curious custom of the Toukaways, a wild people in Texas, of predatory and unruly disposition.
And not only was the embassy obstructed by them in the senate, but a great part of the commons were excited to make predatory excursions into the Roman territory.
No people could be better fitted than the Apache to conduct continuous predatory warfare.
Man, by virtue of his organic nature, is a predatory animal.
As Hobbie continued his depredations upon the English, they bribed some of his hosts, the Armstrongs, to decoy him into England, under pretence of a predatory expedition.
Plants may have memory, perhaps show passion, predatory instincts, or rudimentary intelligence.
Throughout those days of predatory warfare he made careful selection of material for his army.
Predatory troops, tactics to be pursued against them, 91.
The country to which they came, and where they made a final stand against their predatory foes, was well adapted to defense.

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