Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Exploitative: taking advantage of someone
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. tending to exploit or make use of.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to exploit or make use of
Etymologies
- exploit + -ive (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sociopaths take huge advantage of this automatic courtesy in exploitive situations.”
“The bottom-line with respect to morality is that if you knowingly purchase goods produced in exploitive environments, you are morally implicated because you are subsidizing those environments.”
Bastiat in Fairfax?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Obviously, one could have a moral problem with the consumption of products made in exploitive conditions, but see the moral costs of confiscating long-held property as even higher.”
Bastiat in Fairfax?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Today the Windows environment is still the most exploitive from a security point of view but other platforms, including Linux, are now demonstrating similar weaknesses.”
“Some of the violence borders on the sadistic and the sex can seem transparently exploitive, which is not to deny that Underwood Before I Got Here, 2006 and his collaborators may have a bankable thing in super cool, catnip-to-the-ladies Tennyson Hardwick.”
“Yes the 50% contingency fees are onerous and inherently 'exploitive' in the classic sense, but in most cases if a lawyer loses his case he gets nothing.”
“But going from that point to calling internships "exploitive" seems like a really huge leap to me.”
Philocrites: 'UU World' announces Boston internship program.
“Các thuật ngữ "exploitive" và "vị tha" ở đây không có nghĩa là để bao hàm phẩm chất tốt và xấu, nhưng chỉ Characterizations của hai chuyển thể tiến hóa.”
“Sure, it’s exploitive—problem is, it’s sexually exploitive, which is a form of exploitation that needs its own category.”
“Blood and Roses has also been criticized for being too "exploitive," but nothing could be further from the truth.”
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