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UK
/fɹˈiːləʊdɐ/
]
[ US /ˈfɹiˌɫoʊdɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹiˌɫoʊdɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others
How To Use freeloader In A Sentence
- A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others 'generosity without giving anything in return. Reddit.com: what's new online!
- They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders.
- They were consummate freeloaders, shamelessly begging food and hospitality.
- They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation.
- From my low vantage point I noticed the back bumper of a bus we were behind had inverted nails fixed to it, presumably to keep freeloaders from hitching a ride.
- Swatter asks, How do you separate the needy from the lazies and freeloaders? Sound Politics: Strangernomics
- How dare Rush Limbaugh, the principal foghorn of the Right-wing noise machine, denounce them as "freeloaders? Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin
- It was the most rotten of rotten boroughs, a place where the corrupt, the fraudulent and the freeloaders prospered.
- Not so fast freeloaders … the promotion is an invite only friends and family thing, which they have opened up to the tenants of the Empire State Building. Hold the Presses: New Empire State Building Starbucks Only Giving Away Free Stuff to Tenants | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
- In societies, there are freeloaders, scammers, and other miscreants.