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"
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
Predatory people or organizations are eager to gain something out of someone else's weakness or suffering. People who run small businesses are frightened by the predatory behaviour of the banks