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sponger

noun as in cadger

noun as in drone

noun as in hanger-on

noun as in lounge lizard

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Example Sentences

Slow Poke, a sponger, was our first customer.

Kinetic impact projectiles include rubber, plastic, wooden, and “sponger” bullets, which are shot from launchers and guns.

From Reuters

Protesters have also been hit by a variety of rubber, plastic, and “sponger” bullets.

From Reuters

Given that Magnus is a sponger, a con man, Catholic convert and gay, he comes across as a second cousin to that comparably fascinating outcast, Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo.

Migrants fleeing violence or seeking a better life in the US were reframed through Trump’s racist prism as an unstoppable torrent of dark-skinned psychopaths and spongers.

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

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