cadger

Example Sentences

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There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He abhorred a cadger; he abhorred the very sight of the begging circulars which so appreciably increase the postman's daily burden.

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James

"Man, ye're a cadger of the most appallin' descreeption," said Tam severely.

From Tam o' the Scoots by Wallace, Edgar

The mair they see o' ye, the less they 'll meddle wi' ye—caird or cadger.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George