parasitic
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
parasitical
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a variation of
parasitic.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
