Parasitically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a parasitic manner.

    "Similarly, plants and mycorrhizal fungi are no longer thought of as behaving either mutualistically or parasitically."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a parasitic manner wordnet

Example

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"The United States lives parasitically off the people and resources of Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa while subjecting their peoples to unspeakable atrocities."

Etymology

From parasitic + -ally.

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