How to Use exploitive in a Sentence

exploitive

adjective

• The DSA could organize boycotts of exploitive landlords, to help bring the issue of housing costs to the fore.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 19 Aug. 2017
• If this is allowed to become an exploitive model, well, that doesn’t work for my daughters.
  — Gabrielle Canon, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2019
• It’s hard to keep track of all the crazy things that went down in Tiger King, a new Netflix docuseries that uncovers the bizarre and exploitive world of wild cat collecting.
  — Gina Vaynshteyn, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• All summer and fall, a crop of corn and a stand of sunflowers will crowd onto the lawn, adding layers to a stark work that has split visitors — exploitive or homage? — for decades.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
• If a boring and exploitive speech can be called a political success, Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was it.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• That encompasses the loving adult child, the exploitive neighbor and the local UPS driver.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2020
• The scenes of violence against women are critical to the points of the shows, and not usually gratuitous or exploitive.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• Just every kind of exploitive measure that there could be existed for these workers.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
• The show became the standard bearer of a new brand of in-your-face television in the 1990s that audiences embraced and critics decried as exploitive and tasteless.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• Try telling that to the million youngsters who watch YouTube anyway, while their parents play whack-a-mole, trying to keep their kids away from adult, exploitive, violent and scary content.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2018
• While proponents argue that the system helps close budget gaps, opponents argue that the low wages are exploitive.
  — Mariel Padilla, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
• Yet also heartless, deeply amoral, selfish, exploitive, cold.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• All of this is of course made possible by the bizarre, outdated, exploitive definition of amateurism that serves as the NCAA’s raison d’etre.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• About 25 years ago, when Lehrer began painting these portraits, the work was regarded by some as niche, therapeutic at best, exploitive at worst.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• FBI agents looking for abusers search BitTorrent to spot people sharing exploitive images.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2017
• Those regimes are ugly, exploitive, winner-takes-all, Darwinian forms of government.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• While not excusing what began as exploitive relationships, Roberts shows how young men and women both crossed divides.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Eventually, Howard drew back from doing press about Huston, wary of it becoming exploitive.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 Feb. 2023
• Productions were taken advantage of by exploitive pricing by some labs.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• Much of the platform rewards and amplifies exploitive actions by staking creators’ revenue and clout on a handful of metrics—such as view counts and ad impressions—that are easily gamed.
  — Paris Martineau, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• Many firms in the booming climate crisis industry are run by the sort of exploitive capitalism progressives despise.
  — Greg Autry, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• No doubt that world is written off now as racist and exploitive by the morally superior San Francisco of the woke, who 60 years later have created their own wasteland and called it civilization.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• Harry Truman wouldn’t give speeches for money and called the practice exploitive, but that did not stop Gerald Ford, who was the first president known to take advantage of the speaking circuit after leaving office.
  — Fox News, 11 May 2017
• The discussion also led her to look back on her experience in the public eye, leading her to recognize the similar invasion of privacy she and the pop star faced as part of an exploitive system.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• New York City has already recognized this exploitive approach by food delivery platforms and taken steps to require tips to be disclosed to delivery workers.
  — Stephanie Vigil, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• Some feminists have viewed her body-positive art as exploitive in an old, essentializing way, failing to see the claim to power implicit in her erotic self-portraiture.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• As if on cue, one prominent Democratic senator has just served up a classic example of exploitive hyperbole.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2013
• Washing whiteness out of the hierarchy of fashion wouldn’t just take adjustments to corporate leadership or less exploitive supply chains.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• Vagrancy laws were weaponized to force Black people into exploitive labor agreements and incentivized white surveillance of their movements and activities.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• Rock performers, along with rappers and all sorts of other musicians, are supposed to be socially conscious artists rather than exploitive capitalists, so jacking up prices hurt their images.
  — Ryan Tate, WIRED, 1 July 2013

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024