clinging

Speech parts

1. clinging - Noun

2. clinging - Verb

Meaning

of Cling

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Examples

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. George Orwell

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it. Helen Rowland

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Michel de Montaigne

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. William McKinley

It is difficult to throw a stone at a lizard which is clinging to a pot. African Proverb

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