scavengerism
English
Etymology
scavenger + -ism
Noun
scavengerism (uncountable)
- The practice of scavenging
- Thomas Carlyle
- Our Public Life and our Private, our State and our Religion, a tissue of half-truths and whole-lies: Cicero's Roman Augurs and their divine chicken-bowels: Despicable amalgam of true and false. A complete course of scavengerism, the thing needed.
- 1957, Illinois Biological Monographs (issues 25-28, page 123)
- Several congeneric species have been reported there as associated with decomposing plant matter, mushroom culture and corn processing plants, all under circumstances which indicate scavengerism.
- Thomas Carlyle