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parasitic

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par·a·sit·ic  (pr-stk) also par·a·sit·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite.
2. Caused by a parasite: parasitic diseases.
para·siti·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.parasitic - relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection"
parasitical
2.parasitic - of or pertaining to epenthesis
epenthetic
3.parasitic - of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence"
leechlike, parasitical, bloodsucking
dependent - relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; "dependent children"; "dependent on moisture"
parasitic or parasitical
adjective scrounging, (informal) sponging (informal) cadging, bloodsucking (informal) leechlike


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Tree-ferns and mosses and a myriad other parasitic forms jostled with gay-coloured fungoid growths for room to live, and the very atmosphere itself seemed to afford clinging space to airy fairy creepers, light and delicate as gem-dust, tremulous with microscopic blooms.
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For profit- -his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
It struck Will at this moment that the man might be one of those political parasitic insects of the bloated kind who had once or twice claimed acquaintance with him as having heard him speak on the Reform question, and who might think of getting a shilling by news.
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