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• a  relating to or caused by parasites
• s  of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another

• They bleed milky white ichor and are infested with little parasitical worms (that's how vampirism gets transmitted).
• His "health insurances exchanges" include ONLY plans from the parasitical insurance industry -- rather than an economically efficient "single payer" system, or at least a "public .
• But one thing is certain, I generally loathe organized religion, including the parasitical shintoists buddhists who have an institutional stranglehold here.

• parasitic
• leechlike
• bloodsucking

Quotes

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• Richard Posner in guardian.co.uk
  The bloggers are parasitical on the conventional media,Posner wrote. "They copy the news and opinion generated by the conventional media, often at considerable expense, without picking up any of the tab. The degree of parasitism is...
• Alexei Kudrin in The Moscow Times
  Belarussian course today is, in fact, becoming parasitical,Kudrin added, referring to widespread opinion among Russian officials that only Moscow's cash keeps Belarus economy afloat.
• Maryam Namazie in guardian.co.uk
  Its spokeswoman, Maryam Namazie, said the group provided an alternative voice to the "regressive, parasitical and self-appointed leaders" from organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain and the "oxymoronic" Islamic Human Rights Commission.