bloodsucker
Origin of bloodsucker
1Other words from bloodsucker
- bloodsucking, adjective
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How to use bloodsucker in a sentence
A bloodsucking skill because, if done right, it means, in a business sense, never growing old.
The Stacks: How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters | Alex Belth | August 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt does push him toward drawing a caricature of his own, one of slathering, bloodsucking right-wingers.
I have to pay a guinea to a bloodsucking composer when I want a song.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes | Israel ZangwillIf 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 CosterThe really bloodsucking Bats of this family belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers Beddard
Again, there are four things which like the bloodsucking horse-leech are always insatiable.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs | R. F. HortonThis should not appear strange when it is considered that some animals harbor several thousand of the bloodsucking parasites.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle | U.S. Department of Agriculture
British Dictionary definitions for bloodsucker
/ (ˈblʌdˌsʌkə) /
an animal that sucks blood, esp a leech or mosquito
a person or thing that preys upon another person, esp by extorting money
Derived forms of bloodsucker
- bloodsucking, adjective
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