cadger
Example Sentences
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She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist�a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's a regular cadger, that's what he is, and that's all he's fit for.
From Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life by Haggard, Henry Rider
Go down to the back door, and stay about there till you see cadger Jack’s sister.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
On along the streets passed the cadger party; Jack urging Jinkum to haste by a succession of vociferous “yee-ups,” and now and then a sharp touch of the stick.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
