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predatory
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predatory adjective bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, devouring, greedy, living by prey, lupine, pillaging, plundering, praedabundus, praedatorius, predative, raiding, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, ravenous, spoliatory, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish


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Gary Indiana called Jim's blessed predatoriness an example of an "omnisexual, self-consuming modern consciousness.
Nor is the hold on the inscrutabilities of English class positioning, complicated as it is here by aristocratic sexual predatoriness and the ambiguous class status of illegitimate offspring or poor relations who have been forced into service, always as secure as it might be.
Cleven uses magical realism to heighten the novel's disquieting sense of place and to explore the tensions of sexual predatoriness and racial menace in a trans-racial outback community.
 
 
 
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