Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the manner of a parasite. In a fiattering or wheedling manner; by dependence on another.
Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 177. In, on, or at the expense of another: as, to live parasitically.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a parasitic manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a parasitic manner
Examples
“*** Lower down the scale, much nineteenth-century popular history works parasitically off the backs of the major figures listed above--I say "parasitically," since there's a whole lot of plagiarism going on.”
“Like his previous works, Esparza creates autonomous robots that survive in marginal spaces, 'parasitically' feeding off any excess energy supply that they can find.”
“Defending against claims that Google "parasitically" makes money off the backs of ...”
“* or who write performatively, "parasitically," or literarily, not to get all”
“Recent innovations in the digital reproduction of visual art have confounded issues of originality, as the insidious advent of the giclée "print" has (quite intentionally) confused buyers, parasitically taking on the pricing and conventions (pencil signed, limited edition) of the original print.”
The Huffington Post: Brian D. Cohen: The One-Percenter Art World
“Recent innovations in the digital reproduction of visual art have confounded issues of originality, as the insidious advent of the giclée "print" has (quite intentionally) confused buyers, parasitically taking on the pricing and conventions (pencil signed, limited edition) of the original print.”
The Huffington Post: Brian D. Cohen: The One-Percenter Art World
“The young actor makes his connections parasitically, and his crimes, which begin as petty theft and startlingly degenerate into murder, form the diagonal that crosses the book's parallel storylines.”
“Male New Zealand mud snails Potamopyrgus antipodarum persist in copulating with asexual and parasitically castrated females.”
“She can rake millions parasitically living off of politics for life, without having to put herself on the hook for doing anything.”
“His appointment was momentous in one way: It was the first time in history that the Treasury Secretary came from the "new banking" world -- the one that functioned parasitically, using "innovative" tools to make money without any real connection to business activities that build a sound economy.”
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