Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a predatory manner; with pillaging or plundering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a predatory manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a predatory manner.

Etymologies

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predatory +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The two of them approached me now, slowly, predatorily, like lions stalking a gazelle.

    SUSPICION KATE BRIAN 2009

  • The two of them approached me now, slowly, predatorily, like lions stalking a gazelle.

    SUSPICION KATE BRIAN 2009

  • But when global banks and investment houses squander trillions of depositor-dollars on speculative investments like derivatives and credit-default-swaps and predatorily push sub-prime mortgages on the un-creditworthy to the point of virtual insolvency they are painted as the untoward sufferers of a bad economy when the bottom falls out of their ponzie scheme.

    When the LFC comes a' Knocking: Spreading the "Good News" and Asking for Donation 2008

  • The right wing and corporations have perniciously, predatorily worked to take over so many areas of our nation's commons, converting them so they are either privatized or made so they are more beneficial for corporations and not humans.

    Waking Up to The Military/ Corporate Religous Right's Attack on Teen Boys 2005

  • The right wing and corporations have perniciously, predatorily worked to take over so many areas of our nation's commons, converting them so they are either privatized or made so they are more beneficial for corporations and not humans.

    Printing: Waking Up to The Military/ Corporate Religous Right's Attack on Teen Boys 2005

  • The right wing and corporations have perniciously, predatorily worked to take over so many areas of our nation's commons, converting them so they are either privatized or made so they are more beneficial for corporations and not humans.

    Waking Up to The Military/ Corporate Religous Right's Attack on Teen Boys 2005

  • Rosa's desire becomes palpable in response to the presence of this predatorily sexual racial Other; she sings a sleep-song ( "A lady in fair Seville city") about illicit lovemaking with melodic end-phrases rubbed by horny horns

    Savage Boundaries 2002

  • No, the only creatures which resort thither are dogs which subsist no one knows how as predatorily they roam from court to court with tails tucked between their flanks, and bloodless tongues hanging down, and legs ever prepared, on sighting a human being, to bolt into the ravine, or to let down their owners upon subservient bellies in expectation of a probable kick or curse.

    Through Russia 2003

  • The predatorily touches of two empty bodies, pulling at each other in a struggle for completion.

    breakthedark Diary Entry breakthedark 2003

  • No, the only creatures which resort thither are dogs which subsist no one knows how as predatorily they roam from court to court with tails tucked between their flanks, and bloodless tongues hanging down, and legs ever prepared, on sighting a human being, to bolt into the ravine, or to let down their owners upon subservient bellies in expectation of a probable kick or curse.

    Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

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