How to Use exploitative in a Sentence

exploitative

adjective

• But things tend to get more exploitative and dumbed down.
  — Lucy Handley, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025
• Fans quickly slammed the ad as tone-deaf and exploitative.
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• Some have worked, others are just lurid and exploitative.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
• Unlike much of the true crime ground out these days, this book does not feel cheap and exploitative.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
• At first glance, the scene reads as a bit exploitative of the audience.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 7 May 2017
• And so many people don't even make it that far in the hands of exploitative smugglers.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• Some are lethal, some are exploitative, some are permeable to love.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2022
• The book was about the exploitative nature of record contracts.
  — David Arditi, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
• And nothing about the script was exploitative, in my opinion.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• 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
• For him, food—itself often an exploitative system—is a way to do that.
  — Abigail Bereola, GQ, 15 Mar. 2018
• There’s a million ways to do it that are easy and familiar and fun, but feel exploitative to us.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
• Some fans have described the shots on social media as lazy, cheap and exploitative.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• As a leader, be mindful to move away from harmful, exploitative tech.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
• In lesser hands, that tonal balancing act could feel glib or exploitative.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
• The company aimed to make movies with all-Black casts that weren’t exploitative.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Just those that work for the large, evil, exploitative fast food corporations.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
• This is not a concept that many of the most powerful, but exploitative men ever seem to grasp.
  — Jill Filipovic, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• Leanne has pushed her daughter into the same exploitative avenue.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• Other fat women go through the same kinds of exploitative and degrading things.
  — Virgie Tovar, Good Housekeeping, 25 Mar. 2021
• But the more our culture brands such exploitative recordings as tasteless and taboo, the better.
  — Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• At the time, Bolivians saw him as an exploitative mining baron.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2020
• The Lip Sync Battle host saw the video of his friend and like many viewed it as exploitative.
  — Shenequa Golding, Billboard, 10 July 2017
• 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 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
• In a fashion, this is a film that takes advantage of friendship but is never exploitative.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• And so there's a kind of exploitative quality to their assistance.
  — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2020
• There has been criticism of the genre for sometimes being exploitative.
  — Kate Lloyd, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2023
• Because this is the kind of show that wants to celebrate those stories, and never feel exploitative.
  — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 15 May 2026
• Critics have called the furniture-rental business exploitative in the past.
  — Joseph Pisani, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020