How To Use Cadger In A Sentence
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A famous cadger, he had a kamikaze predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.
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Persian bureaucracy was still tiny and the Cadgers had embarked on almost no public works.
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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.
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As well as being a self-described cadger, he was - if not a cad, a seducer.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The devious, dishonest, disreputable old cadger that he is.
The Friday Cyril: Wednesday's Rochdale Obbie Postbag
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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A car thief who hits his first wife so hard that he broke his thumb, Dean is a shiftless alcoholic cadger who dumps three wives over the three years in which the book takes place, leaving his children littered across the landscape.
A Manual to Freedom
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A cadger is a carrier who travels between town and country with butter, eggs, and shop-wares or someone who sells things in the street.
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As well as being a self-described cadger, he was - if not a cad, a seducer.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A self-confessed cadger from Dersingham has been given a huge thank you by the personnel for the support she has given to their Kenyan appeal.
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Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.
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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
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SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout.
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Ye'll see them i 'the mornin' gaen awa 'berfit to the skule, an' a seerip piece i 'their hand, wi' fient o 'hand or face o' them washen, an 'their claes as greasy as a cadger's pooch.
My Man Sandy
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I do not know precisely what 'cadger' means, but I imagine it to be a character like me, liable to headache, to sea-sickness, to all the infirmities 'that flesh is heir to,' and a few others besides; the friends and relations of cadgers should therefore use all soft persuasions to induce them to remain at home.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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He was a sharp dresser and smooth talker imbued with the mysterious charm of the confidence man, an expert cadger of handouts from relatives, friends, and total strangers.
Colossus
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“O cadger, why not answer me when I first called to thee?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night