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单词 bloodsuckery
释义

bloodsuckery

English

Etymology

bloodsucker + -ery

Noun

bloodsuckery (uncountable)

  1. (very rare) The state or actions of being a bloodsucker; parasitism.
    • 2018, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
      White settlers in Kenya were really parasites in paradise. The Right Honorable Hugh Cholmondeley, third Baron Delamere, Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George—the father of “Tom” Delamere—best exemplifies this bloodsuckery. This lord transformed himself from a White Hunter of lions into a White Hunter of other people's lands.

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