parasitical

Speech parts

1. parasitical - Adjective

2. parasitical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.

Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3.

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Examples

Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. Terry Pratchett

a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses Source: Internet

parasitic vines that strangle the trees Source: Internet

bloodsucking blackmailer Source: Internet

his indolent leechlike existence Source: Internet

parasitic infection Source: Internet

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