Her love was sought, I do aver, / By twenty beaux and more; / The king himself has follow'd her / When she has walk'd before. / But now her wealth and finery fled, / Her hangers-on cut short all […]
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Hanger-on
Synonyms for "hanger-on" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
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Translations
24 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- натрапник noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Cebuano
1 entries- kuyog baboy noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 客 noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Dutch
1 entries- klit noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
French
1 entries- crampon noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
German
1 entries- Trabant noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Irish
4 entries- angarúinneach noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
- baoiteálaí noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
- gabhgaire noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
- líodrálaí noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Italian
3 entries- ruffiano noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
- scagnozzo noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
- tirapiedi noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Japanese
1 entries- 取り巻き noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Korean
1 entries- 행거온 noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Latin
1 entries- assecula noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Norwegian
1 entries- påheng noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Persian
1 entries- سوری noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Polish
2 entries- pochlebca noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
- pochlebczyni noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Russian
1 entries- нахле́бник noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Spanish
1 entries- acoplado noun (Someone who hangs on, or sticks)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toadeaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toadeaters more.
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The Rhymney (51 route miles), once an impecunious hanger-on of the Taff Vale, had enjoyed its own route through Caerphilly into Cardiff since 1871, [...].
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“I thought you really liked us.” “I did. Deeply and desperately. And all I wanted was for you to like me. Instead, you treated me like... an afterthought.” “I have got absolutely no really close female friends anymore.” “An annoyance.” “Oh, nice going, dipshit.” “A hanger-on.” “Stand over there and just pretend not to listen.” “I can do that.” “An inconvenience.” “You did R-S-veep "yes."” “Sort of hard to shuffle things around at this late stage.”
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