Predatory in a sentence as an adjective

It can't be done at non "predatory" APRs and it can't be shut down.

And even that seem predatory, never mind getting all the equity and forcing the person out of their place of residence.

Treat it as a predatory pariah and it behaves like a predatory pariah.

The lack of rates and collateral markets also makes this market vulnerable to some well-known predatory trading tactics.

Legally it seems to have been hard to target predatory lending so name-and-shame was the main tactic .A typical loan is a few hundred dollars payable in a few weeks.

You now have publishers in control of the ebook market the same way they're in control of the video game market, through price fixing and predatory pricing models, and retailers have no say in the matter.

Trading with market orders in a fast-moving market may incur siginificant slippage and there are predatory HF algos out there making money from screwing you on your execution.

I used to think this predatory characterization was sensationalist and unfair, but by now, from what I read about amazon so far in the press and even in their own press statements, I think there might be something to it.

It's a significantly better game than the festering, cancerous legion of predatory money extracting non-games that have turned the iOS and Android app stores into cesspits of addiction and credit card fraud.

Consider these phrases:"everything wrong with Silicon Valley""crypto-libertarian political agenda that smacks of nerds-do-it-better paternalism""intellectual sinkhole""near-total obliviousness to reality""alarmingly magical thinking""unchecked predatory capitalism""short-sighted hypercapitalism"There are interesting conversations to have around bitcoins but I can't quite put my finger on why they tend to get so intense.

Yes, there absolutely are policies that encourage people to climb to a perch from which it is incredibly easy to fall: social pressure against out-of-wedlock births; ineffective sexual education; social stigma against and a lack of services providing female reproductive health in general, contraceptives, emergency contraceptives and abortion; the structure of our health system disincentivizing preventative medical care in general; bankruptcy 'reform'; predatory lending practices; social stigma against the trades; corporate abuse of the safety net to depress wages; college grants and their unregulated effect on tuition; the college loan system in general; regressive taxation; child tax credits; safety net rewards based on family size; the jarring transition between qualifying for social safety net programs and not qualifying; military rewards based on family size; subsidized sprawl and a lack of public transportation; zero-tolerance laws and policies; substandard school districts; etc.

Predatory definitions

adjective

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

See also: marauding raiding

adjective

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"

See also: rapacious raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous

adjective

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

See also: predaceous predacious