How To Use hanger-on In A Sentence
- Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on.
- At some point the word slipped its etymological harness and came to mean a hanger-on, someone who could get the occasional meal from a nobleman by pleasing him with good conversation, delivering messages, or doing some other job. Parasite Rex
- But if you're tagging along for the adoration you get by being her bud, eventually people will see that you're just a hanger-on.
- Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone.
- Co-founder Eduardo Saverin's girlfriend is a psychotic and needy hanger-on. Jessica Massa: The Social Network : Where Are All the Girls?
- By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
- By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
- an indolent hanger-on
- A hanger-on ran up to her with a collection of shipping tallies and informed her of the status of the ship.
- He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a sycophant.
