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
She might have her passing caprices and her loose and flippant mode of talking, but she wasn't going to be a failure, a cadger, a parasite, a "fallen" woman.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
It's juist in an' oot like a cadger buyin' eggs, nae peace an' nae solemnity.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian
"Ay," he said, coolly, "it's no ill at that; there was a cadger body yestreen, and there's yoursell the day."
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
