What is another word for "parasite"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "parasite": adulator, claqueur, clawback, courtier, dirty, doer, earwig, encomiast, eulogist, flaneur, flatterer, genus, hanger-on, laudator, optimist, pet, puffer, servility, sycophant, toadeater, toady, touter, whitewasher, work.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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