hanger-on

She sees him for the talentless, wanna-be-famous hanger-on that he is.

The pesky hanger-on evidently possessed an understanding of my immune system that allopathic medicine has yet to match.

While still in humble circumstances and obscure, he was a hanger-on in the suit of the Governor of Africa.

"I am a bookseller's hanger-on—you are going to try your paces as a hack," Warrington said, with a laugh.

Rupert, his son, was but a penniless hanger-on at the royal court; the manor of Lorne a fire-gutted wreckage.

Nor can such a person be a mere fribble; nor can any loose hanger-on of fashion imagine he may assume the character.

I must be mighty careful or I'll lose my point of view and become a wretched hanger-on at the skirts of these fakers.