bottom-feeding

American  

[bot-uhm-fee-ding] / ˈbɒt əmˌfi dɪŋ /

noun

1. the activities of a bottom feeder.

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Example Sentences

Instead, they have chosen to field a team consisting of cast-offs, last-chance opportunities and some young, promising talent — with a bottom-feeding payroll.

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2023

That’s untenable — though we’ve been saying that for 30 years and baseball muddles on, with periodic breakthroughs by astute, bottom-feeding teams such as the Rays and A’s.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Then and now, the cause of the die-off remains elusive, but it appears that something has drastically altered the food web of these large, bottom-feeding cetaceans.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

For four years, Kelly had been surviving like a bottom-feeding fish off the carcass of the sunken Clay Helton era.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Its food consists chiefly of other bottom-feeding fishes, and in inland countries it is considered one of the better class of food fishes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various