- a variation of exploitative.
exploitive
Example Sentences
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How much some of the agents are charging is exploitive of the athletes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Can surrogacy be exploitive or transactional or at least bureaucratic?
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024
They were actually instilling in the kids a sense of something very useful, without sort of putting the kids to work in a way that was, you know, exploitive.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
"Wilson's actions could seriously undermine that confidence his exploitive behaviour will not be tolerated in West Mercia Police."
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2023
Some people who have never met Mason Reese in person unfairly assume that he is a spoiled brat with pushy, exploitive parents.
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max