mooch
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While other dogs might be content to mooch off kitchen droppings, Riley prefers to eat from her own plate of human food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
Not sure how to mooch, much less where to borrow a fishing boat?
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
My husband is wavering, but I think it's totally unnecessary and I don't want to spend my vacation feeling like a mooch.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2022
Like all viruses, they take over cells and force them to churn out other copies of themselves, the worst kind of mooch you can imagine.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2021
Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
Yes, they’re mooches and hypocrites, but—as my colleague Ben Mathis-Lilley has written—maybe hypocrisy is better than the alternative.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2019
Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew Moscato was accurate.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
“Glee” star Darren Criss is plenty creepy and believable as Cunanan, a 27-year-old charlatan and chronic fibber who mooches off the kindness of strangers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2018
In an effort to explain how dogs evolved into the brazen, adorable mooches we know and love, scientists have identified a few genetic mutations that may be behind their friendly personalities.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2017
He mooches off, looking like I'd kicked him, and goes over to the Professor.
From See? by William Ashman
In retirement, I pulled it out, mooched a half-bushel of organic soybeans from an Iowa farmer friend and launched into tofu-making again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Parents dragged their children home from school on sledges, and students mooched their way in and out of brightly-lit malls.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
Dawson’s one taxi was out of commission, so I mooched a ride partway and walked the rest along the Yukon River to the Whitehouse Cabins on the north edge of town.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Get ready for next summer though, to mooch and be mooched upon.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Kevin wasn't allowed to eat sweets, so he always mooched snacks from everybody's lunchboxes.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
Victor the bear was notorious for mooching meals at Mammoth Lakes campgrounds, but when he crashed a steak and wine dinner, things escalated quickly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024
Lupin certainly seems to know where the cat food aisle is, and a number of photographs show the moggy mooching around the boxes and tins.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022
We made a lighthearted comment about how the prices for these services are increasing and how they now show ads because so many people are mooching off the accounts of others.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
Wong likes mooching because, he says, “it’s easy to pick up for all skill levels but it’s also interesting for all skill levels.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
He had little shame over mooching off his uncle and even less about his useless college degree.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
