parasitical
Example Sentences
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In the first years of Slamdance’s existence, Sundance founder Robert Redford notoriously said that Slamdance “attached itself to us in a parasitical way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Capitalists saw feudal aristocrats as lazy, parasitical and incompetent, while aristocrats considered capitalists upstarts, who grubbingly worked for money, and lacked grace, refinement and manners.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2019
One of the great movies about vampires, which Abel Ferrara reimagines as a parasitical cult of addiction, a pyramid scheme for spreading evil.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2018
Social media, a neutral host body for parasitical insanity, have turned their algorithmic gaze upon him.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
I was going to become one of the most depraved parasitical hustlers among New York’s eight million people—four million of whom work, and the other four million of whom live off them.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
