mooch
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While other dogs might be content to mooch off kitchen droppings, Riley prefers to eat from her own plate of human food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
No casting is required to mooch — just drop 10-to-30-pound test line, rigged up on an 8.5-to-9.5-foot moderate action rod, to the desired depth, then reel the line back in.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
My husband is wavering, but I think it's totally unnecessary and I don't want to spend my vacation feeling like a mooch.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2022
Like all viruses, they take over cells and force them to churn out other copies of themselves, the worst kind of mooch you can imagine.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2021
“All he does is yell. The man has a mean streak. He’s rougher on us than we ever were on all those dogs trying to mooch food out of our dumpster.”
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew Moscato was accurate.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
“Glee” star Darren Criss is plenty creepy and believable as Cunanan, a 27-year-old charlatan and chronic fibber who mooches off the kindness of strangers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2018
In an effort to explain how dogs evolved into the brazen, adorable mooches we know and love, scientists have identified a few genetic mutations that may be behind their friendly personalities.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2017
As a 26-year-old who not only is still on the family cellphone plan but also mooches off my parents’ HBO Go and Netflix accounts—I’m apparently doing this whole emerging adulthood thing wrong.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2015
He mooches off, looking like I'd kicked him, and goes over to the Professor.
From See? by William Ashman
When we had a hankering for tofu, I mooched soybeans from an Illinois farmer friend, cooked them up and formed delectable tofu in a wooden box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Parents dragged their children home from school on sledges, and students mooched their way in and out of brightly-lit malls.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
Dawson’s one taxi was out of commission, so I mooched a ride partway and walked the rest along the Yukon River to the Whitehouse Cabins on the north edge of town.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Get ready for next summer though, to mooch and be mooched upon.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Kevin wasn't allowed to eat sweets, so he always mooched snacks from everybody's lunchboxes.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
“I can throw forks because this is our father’s house, my father’s house,” prompting Lee to point out that Mikey is living in the house with his mother, who he’s mooching off of financially.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
These are not “free money” schemes or lazy people just mooching off a system; this is due compensation for the injuries we received in the line of duty.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2023
Deep-sea fishing, trolling, mooching, casting and fly-fishing are fishing disciplines ingrained in the ethos of the Pacific Northwest, with skills passed down through generations.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
Lupin certainly seems to know where the cat food aisle is, and a number of photographs show the moggy mooching around the boxes and tins.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022
He had little shame over mooching off his uncle and even less about his useless college degree.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
