predatoriness

In contrast Loretta Ables Sayre gives a full-blooded performance as the Tonkinese pedlar, Bloody Mary, that brings out the character's sinister predatoriness.

South Pacific – review 2011

Even the central narrative of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, in which a post-nuclear-holocaust world has unleashed human predatoriness, envisages a group that escapes savagery for a pacific way of life.

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban John Mullan 2010

Five years older than the oldest of the other New Bedford girls and desperate for a man, Biddy had the coy predatoriness of one already treading the perilous line of old-maidhood that would drive away even the slightest expression of masculine interest.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

Five years older than the oldest of the other New Bedford girls and desperate for a man, Biddy had the coy predatoriness of one already treading the perilous line of old-maidhood that would drive away even the slightest expression of masculine interest.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

Then business would increase in predatoriness until it eventually degenerated into a system of naked force, undisguised prerogative, and arbitrary command in which the businessman would give way to a recrudescence of the old warlord.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Then business would increase in predatoriness until it eventually degenerated into a system of naked force, undisguised prerogative, and arbitrary command in which the businessman would give way to a recrudescence of the old warlord.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

I am not pleading for the predatory rich, but only for the well-meaning persons in moderately comfortable circumstances, whose predatoriness has been suddenly revealed to them.

Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers

We have, in consequence, a society of thinly veneered predatoriness.

The Seeker Harry Leon Wilson 1903