hanger-on
Example Sentences
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Indicted, booked and fingerprinted, the former president scurried home to his safe space at Mar-a-Lago, where surrounded by sycophants and other grasping hangers-on, he whined.
From Los Angeles Times
Moussaoui “was trying to write a role for himself into history,” Mr. MacMahon said, “when the truth is, he was an al-Qaeda hanger-on and a nuisance to everybody.”
From Washington Post
When the insular and sometimes critical New York art world became too much for Basquiat, whose friends and hangers-on would crowd his apartment at all hours of the day and night, he decamped to L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
Duke Kincaid, always known as “the Duke,” his several wives and their assorted children and hangers-on could all find places at Hampton Court Palace, or perhaps within Hilary Mantel’s brutal “Wolf Hall” trilogy.
From Los Angeles Times
“As Trump ramps up for ‘24 amid multiple investigations — and possible indictment — his team is no longer dominated by family members and hangers-on.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
