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panhandler

noun as in someone who lives by begging

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Example Sentences

Perhaps in response to the panhandler, perhaps not, a teenage girl sitting nearby thanks me for my service.

This is not what the panhandler wishes to hear and she continues through the subway car.

Obedient to the young woman's request, the panhandler waited.

Nothing, however, seemed further from the panhandler's thoughts than flight.

The kind of walk you adopt when you want to pretend you can't see a panhandler, or don't want to get involved in a street-fight.

It struck her, too, that despite his panhandler's manner this man was yet in a fashion different.

You're nose gets as red as a rear light on an automobile or the beak of a Park Row panhandler.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to panhandler, such as: beggar, mendicant, almsman, almswoman, cadger, and scrounger.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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