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

Now I know why, having got the information from our cadger friends.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

One minute there would be a would-be viveur, in sleek dress clothes; then along comes a cadger; then along comes a warrior from the battlefield.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

He has the air of a cadger, and no one pays him heed.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater