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
Stepping out into the middle of the causeway, he confronted the cadger party, and brought it to a stop, with the interrogation: “Whence come you, my worthy people?”
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Well, nothing would suit, but the dustman must have a go, and pitch into the cadger.
From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Seymour, Robert
You're a-goin' to be a gentleman, you are—an' I'll have to take to the road by meself and be a poor beast of a cadger again.
From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
