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scrounger

[ UK /skɹˈa‍ʊnd‍ʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

How To Use scrounger In A Sentence

  • The man who wants everyone - thats everyone not just some workshy feckless scrounger who has been unemployed for fifteen years - aka a miner shafter from the first time around - to work for their dole. The Guardian World News
  • MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
  • I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like Lessing during the 1960s, Frances is a ‘housemother’, who fills her large home with an eclectic mixture of waifs, strays and scroungers.
  • And these plays are not attended by dole scroungers, Trotskyites, hopheads or peaceniks, but by the decent ordinary people of Galway.
  • MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
  • She said I was a scrounger, a ne'er-do-well, lazy, good-for-nothing, living on her taxes and making my wife go out to work. WIDOW'S END
  • It would encourage scroungers not to work as the unemployed would be exempt from the charges. The Sun
  • It would encourage scroungers not to work as the unemployed would be exempt from the charges. The Sun
  • He works as a factory food packer and hit back at critics who say his countryfolk are scroungers. The Sun
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