leechlike

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leechlike - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  leechlike
      adj 1: of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a
             parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class
             parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines
             that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer";
             "his indolent leechlike existence" [syn: parasitic,
             parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking]