suckerish

comparative more suckerish · superlative most suckerish

1. informalResembling or characteristic of the sucker of an animal.

   […] plans, plans, plans, spreading outward from my hard skull, but in the soft and suckerish manner of an octopus.

   1995, Marion Kay Douglas, Bending at the Bow

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   It took several minutes and a few more of its suckerish tentacles to complete the search, but at last the Kraken found a closed clamshell. It passed it to me.

   2012, C H Garbutt, Black Pool

2. informalGullible; easily taken advantage of.

   He even forgets about the great sum he loses, but perpetually irritates himself with his own suckerish imagination.

   1934, Bangkok Review, volume 1, number 3, page 18

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   Not since the early, suckerish days of a bourgeoisie that caught the brunt of Dada and Surrealism have congenitally ungrateful artists been presented with so large and luscious a hand to bite.

   1999, The New Yorker, volume 75, numbers 1-10, page 94