How to Use exploitative in a Sentence

exploitative

adjective

• Moreover, much of what was destroyed was slum housing constructed by exploitative landlords.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Workers have had enough of the company's abusive and exploitative behavior.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2021
• Only five of the miniseries' seven episodes were made available for review, but its exploitative scenes so far feel more like an aberration than anything else.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2021
• But some see the clinical trials as exploitative in a society that has failed to create worthwhile employment.
  — Kiera Feldman Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2021
• Google started ranking such exploitative sites lower in its results, but the change didn’t help people who don’t have much information online.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• One of the quickest shortcuts to exposing exploitative practices or inappropriate behavior is for artists to talk.
  — Nolan Feeney, Billboard, 4 June 2021
• Pivoting from a sector perceived as exploitative to one that closely aligns with government interests is also good business, given the raft of tax breaks and incentives that often come along with it.
  — Time, 20 May 2021
• In defending their searing images, Little Marvin and Free insist their intent is not to be offensive or exploitative.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But the more our culture brands such exploitative recordings as tasteless and taboo, the better.
  — Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• Some are lethal, some are exploitative, some are permeable to love.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• This exploitative assumption turned out to be very wrong.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• Some of these films and TV shows are transcendent and affecting, while others are exploitative and in poor taste.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
• The labor market is broken, and exploitative practices on both sides of the law aren't all that different.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
• Both types of work are grueling and exploitative, and the people doing them face government bans of the tools of their livelihoods.
  — Zoë Beery, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022
• In a fashion, this is a film that takes advantage of friendship but is never exploitative.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• And police found exploitative videos of Volar abusing girls who appeared as young as 12, the Post reported.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
• This brought up the age-old question: exploitative or inclusive?
  — Emma Flint, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• Veronica Carrasco, a 40-year-old construction worker, said workers need a national heat standard to protect themselves from exploitative bosses.
  — Niko Kommenda, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• Such initiatives could also help farmers unhappy with exploitative contracts with meatpacking companies to escape the industry.
  — Grace Van Deelen, Vox, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024