How To Use cadger In A Sentence
- A famous cadger, he had a kamikaze predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.
- Persian bureaucracy was still tiny and the Cadgers had embarked on almost no public works.
- A letter written on February 16th, 1953, to the ailing Welsh poet, who in fact died later that year, offering what small mead of help he could, draws back the veil upon an aspect of the Cymric cadger hitherto well hidden.
- As well as being a self-described cadger, he was - if not a cad, a seducer. The Times Literary Supplement
- The devious, dishonest, disreputable old cadger that he is. The Friday Cyril: Wednesday's Rochdale Obbie Postbag
- So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing
- I detailed Kelly Eyre to Quimperlé with orders for ten thousand crimson hand-bills; I sent McCadger, with Dawley, the bass-drummer, and Irwin, the cornettist, to plaster our posters from Pont Aven to The Maids of Paradise
- A want of application, a restlessness of purpose, a thirsting after porter, a love of all that is roving and cadger – like in nature, shared in common with many other great geniuses, appear to have been his leading characteristics. Sketches by Boz
- See: BEGGAR, LOAF, SAUNTER. cadger: Cadging, the ancient art of imposing upon the generosity of others, is an essential skill for the would-be idler, since poverty is the easiest way to obtain a great deal of free time. Boing Boing
- For ages the trunk road from east to west passed close by, the old hotel at Kingswell ‘Cadgers’ Knowe, marks the camping ground of cadgers and humbler folks.