Crossword-Solution: PARASITIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parasitic | a. | Alt. of Parasitical |
We have 22 clues for the answer “PARASITIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ungracious to one's host? | 1 answer |
| Living off others | 1 answer |
| Living at the expense of the host organism | 1 answer |
| Like vampire bats | 1 answer |
| Like freeloaders | 1 answer |
| Freeloading | 1 answer |
| having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech | 2 answers |
| Like leeches | 2 answers |
| Like a sycophant. | 2 answers |
| LIVING off another | 2 answers |
| Spongelike | 3 answers |
| scrounging | 11 answers |
| parasitical | 11 answers |
| leechlike | 11 answers |
| bloodsucking | 11 answers |
| sponging | 12 answers |
| sycophantic | 19 answers |
| Obsequious | 23 answers |
| dueness | 25 answers |
| Rapacity | 27 answers |
| Claim | 64 answers |
| extortion | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARASITIC (5)
The parasitic poor relations found their situation so uncomfortable, that they decided, one and all, to detach themselves from the tree upon which they fed and fattened, even at the risk of withering on a barren soil.
Obliged to flee from one pastorate to another, he at last found a happy refuge at Weimar in the society of Goethe, Wieland, and Jean Paul, and thence he exercised a powerful influence in removing noxious and parasitic growths from religious thought.
But what would her aunt think of Teddy’s recent off-hand suggestion of marriage? What would she think of the Widgett conversation? Suppose she was to tell her aunt quietly but firmly about the parasitic males of degraded crustacea.
She was under the power of a strange will which had entered into her, like another soul, a parasitic and ruling soul.
For all these you must consult Johnson’s “Zoophytes,” and for a dozen smaller species, which you would probably find tangled among them, or parasitic on the sea-weed.
Quotes with PARASITIC (3)
Overthinking is parasitic. It’s viral. It’s deadly, even. Letting yourself fall victim to overthinking doesn’t just kill your happiness, it destroys who you are. The mind is a beautiful and complex thing, and the only person who can hurt it is yourself.
Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding — a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted. There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and…
The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1964–2019).