Both Uses of
parasitic
in
Middlemarch
- Those creatures are parasitic.†
Chpt 1 *
- It struck Will at this moment that the man might be one of those political parasitic insects of the bloated kind who had once or twice claimed acquaintance with him as having heard him speak on the Reform question, and who might think of getting a shilling by news.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(parasite) a species that lives on (or in) another species and eats from it without providing return benefit
or:
a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them