Definition of "bottom-feeding" [bottom-feeding]

• Of or relating to fish and marine life that feed on the bottom of a body of water (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The human contribution to oceanic dead zones is significant: ...new scientific research suggests that pollutants, including flame-retardant chemicals and synthetic musks found in detergents, are being traced in the polar seas, and that these chemicals can be absorbed by tiny plastic particles in the ocean which are in turn ingested by marine creatures such as bottom-feeding fish."
• "Dan Leibsohn, founder and former Executive Director of the Low Income Investment Fund (formerly the Low Income Housing Fund) may have figured out a way for communities to challenge this bottom-feeding capitalism."
• "Foreclosure mills and their employees getting rich off the poor fortune of others is a routine bottom-feeding business and have been around a long time."