All 22 Uses of
parasitic
in
The Host
- I don't want to be a filthy parasite!†
Chpt 4
- Muscles like that are the product of hard living or obsession, and the parasites have neither.†
Chpt 4
- Just to get the weather forecast; there isn't much entertainment in the dead-boring everything-is-perfect reports that pass for news among the parasites.†
Chpt 9
- You won'tfool us, you parasite.†
Chpt 13
- You know how the parasites are always so...verypleasant?†
Chpt 18
- Talked to the parasite that worked there, though that one had already been questioned.†
Chpt 18
- Jared, when have you ever met a parasite who could lie about anything?†
Chpt 19
- Do they remember how the host-parasite relationship was formed?†
Chpt 25
- I thought the parasites—I mean the souls—didn't like negative humor.†
Chpt 25
- Are youall parasites now?†
Chpt 26
- You're not a parasite.†
Chpt 26
- The parasites are holding the Olympics in Haiti right now.†
Chpt 29
- Individual parasite sports are much more entertaining than when they try to compete against each other directly.†
Chpt 29
- Do you think the parasites'll be gone for long?†
Chpt 29
- The parasite!†
Chpt 31
- For the parasite.†
Chpt 31
- I'll just take your light with me, Doc, so that Jeb's pet parasite can't get up to anything, and be on my way.†
Chpt 31
- No matter how he felt about me, he'd been conditioned to expect a parasite, a centipede, a monster.†
Chpt 53
- I am tired of being a parasite.
Chpt 57 *parasite = person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them
- You'll still be a parasite, kid.†
Chpt 57
- I told you I didn't want to be a parasite," I whispered.†
Chpt 59
- You're not a parasite," Melanie said firmly, touching my hair, pulling up a strand and letting the gold slide between her fingers.†
Chpt 59
Definition:
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
or:
a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them