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Meaning of suckerish | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the sucker of an animal.
    informal
  2. Gullible; easily taken advantage of.
    informal

Examples

“[…] plans, plans, plans, spreading outward from my hard skull, but in the soft and suckerish manner of an octopus.”
“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.”
“He even forgets about the great sum he loses, but perpetually irritates himself with his own suckerish imagination.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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