bloodsucker
[bluhd-suhk-er]
- any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- an extortioner or usurer.
- sponger(def 2).
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Contemporary Examples of bloodsucking
A bloodsucking skill because, if done right, it means, in a business sense, never growing old.
It does push him toward drawing a caricature of his own, one of slathering, bloodsucking right-wingers.
Historical Examples of bloodsucking
I have to pay a guinea to a bloodsucking composer when I want a song.
The Grey Wig: Stories and NovelettesIsrael Zangwill
Again, there are four things which like the bloodsucking horse-leech are always insatiable.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of ProverbsR. F. Horton
If he had drowned thee, thou wouldst not have lived to bite my poor girl, like a bloodsucking vampire.
The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Vol. II (of 2)Charles de Coster
This should not appear strange when it is considered that some animals harbor several thousand of the bloodsucking parasites.
Special Report on Diseases of CattleU.S. Department of Agriculture
bloodsucker
- an animal that sucks blood, esp a leech or mosquito
- a person or thing that preys upon another person, esp by extorting money
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