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bloodsucking

[ bluhd-suhk-ing ]

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adjective

being or relating to an animal or mythical being that feeds on blood:
Bloodsucking insects are common in this part of the world.
In the film, bloodsucking aliens descend on a small town.
being or relating to a person or organization who preys on, exploits, or takes advantage of others:
He denounced his rival politicians as bloodsucking fraudsters living large on their constituents' money.

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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.

I have to pay a guinea to a bloodsucking composer when I want a song.

If he had drowned thee, thou wouldst not have lived to bite my poor girl, like a bloodsucking vampire.

The really bloodsucking Bats of this family belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.

Again, there are four things which like the bloodsucking horse-leech are always insatiable.

This should not appear strange when it is considered that some animals harbor several thousand of the bloodsucking parasites.

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