cadger
Example Sentences
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She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist�a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cadger sweeping a crossing fell out with a dustman.
From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Seymour, Robert
He has the air of a cadger, and no one pays him heed.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater
There isn't a man in Boveyhayne who is pretending to be a fisherman and is really a cadger on summer visitors.
From Changing Winds A Novel by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
