sponger

IPA: spˈʌndʒɝ

Examples of "sponger" in Sentences

I guess she must have been the ultimate sponger.
He drank in the company of spongers and prostitutes.
There is a nasty sound about the word sponger, don't you think?
Its mascot is the Sponger, reflecting the town's history of sponge diving.
Buckingham Palace denies Prince Philip called pop impresario Simon Cowell a "sponger".
That word "sponger" as it came to Dan caused him to straighten himself up and step forward more quickly.
Mr Griffin said Miss Hanson, who once claimed Australia was being "swamped by Asians", would not be a "sponger".
But of course, if never to be hungry, thirsty, or cold, is to be happy, the sponger is the man who is in that position.
If the courageous is so in virtue of his courage, the sensible sensible in virtue of his sense, then the sponger is a sponger in virtue of sponging.
He explained the meaning of the word sponger for the American audience: "That means somebody who makes their money by sponging off other people," he said.
Cowell then explained the meaning of the word sponger for American audiences as 'that means somebody who makes their money from sponging off other people.'
A soldier without his arms, a dress without its purple, a horse without its trappings, are poor things; and a rich man without his sponger is a mean, cheap spectacle.
Cold hungry philosophers you may see any day, but never a cold hungry sponger; the man would not be a sponger, that is all, but a wretched pauper, no better than a philosopher.