parasite
noun
an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
Example Sentences
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Boarding school has parasitically replaced Vanessa’s incipient interior life with its own simulacrum of one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2020
What ABC and the producers did, of course, was rid themselves of an annoyance, a troublesome show that had become unmanageable, almost parasitically taken over by a Twitter feed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
The only one way to battle a disease that affixes itself parasitically to our humanity is to overwhelm it with greater, stronger humanity.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2014
I live parasitically off the labour of others and benefit from the power structure that protects me.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2013
Finance most emphatically does not mean fleecing the public, nor fattening parasitically off the industry and commerce of the country.
From High Finance by Otto Hermann Kahn
