exploit
noun
a striking or notable deed; feat; spirited or heroic act.
exploiter
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a word derived from
exploit.
Example Sentences
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Blithely good-natured and generally immune to shame, Richie Bravo is an equal-opportunity exploiter and exploitee; he’s happy to allow others to use his home, his fame and his body, and to use others in return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
In this sense, as in many others, Beijing is an equal-opportunity exploiter of rivals’ openings.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2021
The director, Leo’s old protege, comes off as a heartless exploiter, but Leo has his own reasons for sitting before the camera that he spent a lifetime pointing at others.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021
Our country was founded in conflict – not the ordinary conflict of the Revolutionary war, but the conflict between Thomas Jefferson’s ideals and his actions as an owner and exploiter of other human beings.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2018
In various court documents, judges described Cofield as a “con artist,” “no more than a gadfly and an exploiter of the court system,” and “the most litigious inmate in the system.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
