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Bloodsucker   /blˈədsˌəkər/   Listen
Bloodsucker

noun
1.
Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.  Synonyms: hirudinean, leech.






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"Bloodsucker" Quotes from Famous Books



... for all who work; the surplus out of which life would be replenished is consumed, and the amount of life in the nation at large is lessened. Every one of those schemes of frenzied finance about which we are reading in these days is a gigantic bloodsucker, with ten million minute tentacles which it stealthily fastens upon the people who do the world's work, and each one of the victims must give up a little of his life for the aggrandizement of our financial Titans. When such schemes flourish, ...
— The world's great sermons, Volume 8 - Talmage to Knox Little • Grenville Kleiser

... There, however, he deceived himself; but who would not have deceived himself in his place? He saw his son lapsed to atheism, to the ESPRIT, to the pleasant frivolity of clever Frenchmen—he saw in the background the great bloodsucker, the spider skepticism; he suspected the incurable wretchedness of a heart no longer hard enough either for evil or good, and of a broken will that no longer commands, is no longer ABLE to command. Meanwhile, however, there ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche



Words linked to "Bloodsucker" :   segmented worm, leech, Hirudinea, medicinal leech, annelid worm, class Hirudinea, Hirudo medicinalis, horseleech, annelid



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