parasitical

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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

Social media, a neutral host body for parasitical insanity, have turned their algorithmic gaze upon him.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016

Readers will get a sharp sense of its folkways; its unwritten rules and adhocracies; its hardy but mostly parasitical economy, based on smuggled goods and the resale of United Nations rations.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 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