parasitic
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
parasitical
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a variation of
parasitic.
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
Such constant “predation,” he suggested, soon became the “habitual, conventional resource” of the parasitical class.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2019
It is essentially self-serving and parasitical in nature.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2017
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
