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
The mair they see o' ye, the less they 'll meddle wi' ye—caird or cadger.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
Jim: Do you take me for a cangling cadger, to haggle ...
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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
