[
UK
/spˈʌndʒɐ/
]
NOUN
- a workman employed to collect sponges
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
How To Use sponger In A Sentence
- MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
- The message from the Committee is if you watch the picture please pay up and don't be a sponger.
- That huge sums could be diverted to those in genuine need - not least the mentally ill - if the spongers were stopped seems to fall on deaf ears.
- MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
- These journeys would take great courage and stamina - a fact that is hard to square with the common perception of immigrants as work-shy spongers.
- So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing
- ‘The fact that the vast majority of recently arrived asylum seekers are excluded from the workplace creates a situation where they are seen as spongers,’ he believes.
- He was a sponger even when he had money of his own.
- As a consequence they were parasites and spongers.
- The world seemed to consist of spongers like Marc, supporters like Christopher, and victims like Francis.
