adverb
- in a manner that takes unfair advantage of someone or something for one's own benefit
Usage: formed from the adjective 'exploitative' with the adverbial suffix '-ly'
Examples
- The company was accused of exploitatively using child labor in its factories.
- Workers complained that they were being exploitatively paid below minimum wage.
- The landlord exploitatively raised rents on tenants who had nowhere else to go.
- He exploitatively manipulated her emotions to get what he wanted.
- The corporation exploitatively extracted natural resources from developing nations.