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hanger-on

noun as in person who attends the powerful for status or benefit

noun as in minion

noun as in sponge

noun as in sycophant

noun as in camp follower

noun as in fifth wheel

noun as in barnacle

noun as in adherent

noun as in groupie

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Example Sentences

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.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hanger-on, such as: dependent, flunky/flunkey, follower, freeloader, lackey, and leech.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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