parasitical

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It is helpful, because viruses are fundamentally parasitical, to understand their day-to-day existence through a framework similar to that used for comprehending other parasites.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022

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

“Here we have this guy who is 33, who has been to Geneva for a couple years, who has got no executive experience whatsoever, basically running this parasitical economy, which isn’t functioning very well.”

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 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