hanger-on in English

noun

1

a person who associates with another person or a group in a sycophantic manner or for the purpose of gaining some personal advantage.

he was a hanger-on who used to come around and drink with Father

synonyms: follower, flunky, toady, camp follower, sycophant, parasite, leech, bottom feeder, henchman, minion, lackey, vassal, acolyte, cohort, groupie, sponger, freeloader, passenger, sidekick

noun

• follower, flunky, toady, camp follower, sycophant, parasite, leech, bottom feeder, henchman, minion, lackey, vassal, acolyte, cohort, groupie, sponger, freeloader, passenger, sidekick
• tagalong

Use "hanger-on" in a sentence

1. I see Iran as a hanger-on.

2. A good - natured But indolent hanger - on.

3. He felt like a hanger-on, a toady.

4. Now I'm the hanger - on at these parties - the lame duck.

5. Nowadays do the politician and statesmen support a hanger-on of aristocrat?

6. Exist hanger-on it. Everything will falling instant when the authority fall apart .

7. From a hanger on the hatstand hangs the jacket of a pale grey summer suit.

8. Go and be a hanger-on at Henry's storehouses, and pick up what grain you can.

9. The development of manor and southern economy cultivated hanger-on and scholars. Meanwhile, it offered them material guarantee.

10. Mowang person hanger-on disciple is famous by the intrepid battle efficiency, Honors violent is the Mowang villages strongholds tradition.

11. Honors violent is the Mowang villages strongholds tradition, Mowang person hanger-on disciple is famous by the intrepid battle efficiency.

12. Supporter, fan, advocate, follower, admirer, partisan, disciple, protagonist, devotee, henchman, hanger-on, upholder, sectary Communism was gaining Adherents in Latin America

13. 24 Honors violent is the Mowang villages strongholds tradition,[www.Sentencedict.com] Mowang person hanger-on disciple is famous by the intrepid battle efficiency.

14. Sichuan accepts prodigal son Ouyang Han (Zhou Runfa) in the hanger-on , causes the Chinese and China pesters, is diverted attention China.

15. It turned out that one other hanger-on could imitate the cock's crow very well, and the first crow was actually his imitation.

16. He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out.

17. Life was not so great for the peasants who did all the work, but I'm presumptuously assuming that I'd be a hanger-on at court.

18. There was a better hand across the table, held by a pugnacious Irish youth, who was a political hanger-on of the Tammany district in which they were located.

19. A man is responsible and capable of action only when he lives in his own way; otherwise, he is just a hanger-on or follower-on without proper personality.