exploitative
adjective
ex·ploit·ative
ik-ˈsplȯi-tə-tiv 
ˈek-ˌsplȯi-
ˈek-ˌsplȯi-
: exploiting or tending to exploit
especially
: unfairly or cynically using another person or group for profit or advantage
exploitative terms of employment
an exploitative film
exploitatively
adverb
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Yet Grier clarified that there is not only blaxploitation onscreen, but rather exploitative genre films for any race and gender.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, mailers sent out by the California Real Estate Independent Expenditure Committee and the Silicon Valley Biz PAC have called Chavez-Lopez deceitful and exploitative of the housing crisis.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
Predatory real estate tactics-such as inflated land valuations that push Native families out, coercive buyouts, and exploitative leasing agreements-undermine Tribal sovereignty and destabilize Native economies.
—Oweesta, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Garner also singled out Sacramento’s Fashion Environmental Accountability Act [AB 405], a bill designed to reduce the fashion industry’s role in generating textile waste, natural resources pollution and exploitative labor practices.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, mailers sent out by the California Real Estate Independent Expenditure Committee and the Silicon Valley Biz PAC have called Chavez-Lopez deceitful and exploitative of the housing crisis.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
Predatory real estate tactics-such as inflated land valuations that push Native families out, coercive buyouts, and exploitative leasing agreements-undermine Tribal sovereignty and destabilize Native economies.
—Oweesta, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Garner also singled out Sacramento’s Fashion Environmental Accountability Act [AB 405], a bill designed to reduce the fashion industry’s role in generating textile waste, natural resources pollution and exploitative labor practices.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Exploitative.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploitative. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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