How to Use exploitative in a Sentence

exploitative

adjective

• The Lip Sync Battle host saw the video of his friend and like many viewed it as exploitative.
  — Shenequa Golding, Billboard, 10 July 2017
• At first glance, the scene reads as a bit exploitative of the audience.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 7 May 2017
• Please know, the anguish of his death is not exploitative.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• The book was about the exploitative nature of record contracts.
  — David Arditi, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
• And so many people don't even make it that far in the hands of exploitative smugglers.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• This is a strangely exploitative place, full of Web sites with names such as goldeneggdonation.com.
  — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Why doesn’t or can’t Ricky, in your view, leave a job that is clearly exploitative?
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
• The company aimed to make movies with all-Black casts that weren’t exploitative.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• And nothing about the script was exploitative, in my opinion.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• Sometimes tourism is so exploitative—in Hawaii, most of the food comes from off the island and most of the money goes off island too.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2024
• But on the other, many working artists consider the use of their art to train AI to be exploitative.
  — Robert Mahari, Fortune, 17 June 2023
• The more central and essential the bots become, the greater the risk that they’ll be used in extractive and exploitative ways.
  — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• Critics of the genre argue that true crime is exploitative and voyeuristic, and there’s no doubt that’s part of its allure.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• This is not a concept that many of the most powerful, but exploitative men ever seem to grasp.
  — Jill Filipovic, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• Given the subject matter, Noyce and Watts were concerned that the film not be exploitative.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• Now states are working to pass laws to halt exploitative A.I. images.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• Some fans have described the shots on social media as lazy, cheap and exploitative.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• But the more our culture brands such exploitative recordings as tasteless and taboo, the better.
  — Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• Plenty of great art has been exploitative of its subjects.
  — Dvorameyers, Longreads, 5 June 2019
• For him, food—itself often an exploitative system—is a way to do that.
  — Abigail Bereola, GQ, 15 Mar. 2018
• Some are lethal, some are exploitative, some are permeable to love.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2022
• There's a lot of drug use, and there's a lot of partying, and there's a lot of nudity and stuff, which can often feel exploitative.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
• But at the same time, Only Murders doesn’t excuse the exploitative choice to record a podcast about a neighbor’s death.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
• The Sugar Sphinx is a forceful symbol of an exploitative global past that has not passed.
  — Longreads, 28 Feb. 2018
• This is a film about performance too, and how exploitative playing the role of a real-life person can be.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
• The relics are a dark reminder of how the body parts of indigenous people were swapped and sold in a grisly, exploitative trade, not just in Germany, but around the world.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
• The fallout led to questions about how the show, considered by many to be cruel and exploitative, was allowed to run for more than a decade.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
• But everyone has since tired of that exploitative practice, so in the past few years the brand has re-engineered the concept.
  — Brett Berk, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2017
• Her guardian, Sabrina E. Morrissey, sued to try and prevent its release, claiming the doc was exploitative.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
• Working on independent films has often been a labor of love, with long days and little pay, but with budgets shrinking, the doing-more-with-less mentality had crossed the line into being exploitative.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025