Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another.
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The newcomer for an hour hung to the truck leechlike, without winning further recognition.
2
Before my parents stopped sending my allowance, I needed to reform my leechlike personality and escape this rotten hikikomori lifestyle.
3
It clung leechlike to chiffon of cloak and gown, and though Annesley tore at the yellow fingers, she could not loosen them.
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He thought of Brawne, that brave woman, energy incarnate, lying helpless with that leechlike extension of the Shrike's evil growing from her skull.