Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sucking or drawing blood; preying on the blood: as, “blood-sucking sighs,”
Wiktionary
- adj. of an animal That draws off the blood of another animal
- adj. by extension, of a person parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. drawing blood from the body of another.
- adj. having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
- adj. drawing blood from the body of another
Examples
“The answer, in part, is that the bloodsucking is a bi-partisan feast.”
“LA Times article that informed us that said milking strategies (or shall we say "bloodsucking" strategies?) start with the local hotels.”
“Although reading about some of them might amuse you, these are not the type of bloodsucking fiends you would want to come across in a dark alley.”
“The discoveries of the bloodsucking pests at high-profile places are often not full-blown infestations, or even in public areas.”
“Crews responding to the blaze Wednesday also had to battle bedbugs, the bloodsucking insects quickly becoming the scourge of households and businesses across the country.”
The Huffington Post: Denver Firefighters Battle Bedbugs Escaping From Burning House
“This August there will be dark clouds of bloodsucking creatures in Scotland.”
The Guardian: Weatherwatch: Beware the swarms of biting midges at dusk
“Why are these little bloodsucking critters not going away?”
The Huffington Post: Michael Colongione: Why We Still Can't Stop Bed Bugs
“That should count more than a roll in the sack with an inhuman, bloodsucking scumbag.”
“The damned vampire had wormed his bloodsucking way inside her head, inside her heart, into her bed, and taken control of her every thought, every action.”
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parasitic
parasitoid, brood parasite, hyperparasite, ectoparasite, social parasite, epiparasite, intercellular par..., kleptoparasite, parasitic castration, necrotroph, parasitic castrator, microparasite and 66 more...
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simple & useful6
vaporize, potentiality, lamentation, finite, hobbling, whiffed, accessorizing, negligible, amplification, grumbly, trumpeting, snares and 65 more...
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