Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who clings: applied sometimes to persons of a stationary social type or class, who depend on others for support and leadership.
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- noun
Agent noun ofcling ; one who clings.
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Examples
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She was gowned in a very close fitting and striking black satin "clinger" gown.
Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft
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"Oh, indeed!" more shoulder shrugging and a futurist pose of the black satin "clinger," "What else, then, might the Lady Stearns be doing at my place?"
Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft
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Monica Lewinsky had sore knees too obama's unctuousness is soooo lumpenprole - maybe he is secretly a closet "clinger"
Hot Air » Top Picks 2009
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Using this clinger as a source of any credible story is rediculous.
Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else' 2009
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In part, as evidenced by the Obama bitter-clinger comment, it is an honest reflection of the liberal elite's attitudes.
On the Offensive James Taranto 2010
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Oh no! It's not a gun toting bible clinger. davo119
Obama Joker artist a Palestinian-American Kuchinich supporter. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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If you disagree with any policy of this Administration, you are instantaneously pigeon-holed into the category of status-quo clinger.
Rita M. Solnet: Casualties of the Aftermath -- The Children Rita M. Solnet 2010
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If you disagree with any policy of this Administration, you are instantaneously pigeon-holed into the category of status-quo clinger.
Rita M. Solnet: Casualties of the Aftermath -- The Children Rita M. Solnet 2010
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I also happen to be an orthodox Catholic living in the Rust Belt in southwestern PA, so by extension I am a “bitter clinger”
The difficulty of demonizing the Tea Partiers: less than six degrees of separation 2010
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If you are buying gold because you are a bitter clinger that is brainwashed by those hypesters who rip off listeners at advertise with Glenn Beck, Rush and Sean, just ignore gold's having trounced all other major currencies over time.
Bill Baker: Fiat Currency Fever: The Causes Bill Baker 2010
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