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What does bloodsucking mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of an insect or animal) That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person.
  2. (by extension, of a person) parasitic, leechlike or freeloading
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It does push him toward drawing a caricature of his own, one of slathering, bloodsucking right-wingers.
The article covers a probable impact of global changes on the distribution of bloodsucking arthropods as the vectors of inoculable disease agents.
The extent to which I hate bloodsucking ticks can hardly be described and I subject myself to intense and private scrutiny when I return home.
What is necessary is to increase the buying power of the workers, not to chain them for life to their exploiters through bloodsucking loans.
Catfish are also extremely diverse, ranging in size from tiny three-quarter-inch-long bloodsucking candiru to the six-foot-long 300-pound monsters known as piraiba.
Similarly, as soon as I crossed the doorstep, the June hordes of bloodsucking blackflies and horseflies left off their hot pursuit.

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