parasitical

Example Sentences

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Earlier this month, he unloaded on the Winkler family, specifically Irwin Winkler, whom he dubbed “the remarkably untalented and parasitical Producer of Rocky and Creed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Jefferson charged that the judiciary act was “a parasitical plant engrafted” on the “judicial body” as a last-ditch effort to thwart him.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2020

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

This is the sweet spot, how do you develop a parasitical approach to the relationship without killing the host.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2018

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