Crossword-Solution: SPONGERS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Freeloading types | 1 answer |
| Habitual freeloaders | 1 answer |
| Freeloaders | 7 answers |
| Parasites | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPONGERS (5)
Also, the impecunious spongers at his clubs spread his fame as a "tight-wad" because he refused to let them "stick him up" for even a round of drinks.
The picaresque method consisted in delineating the habits of outcasts, bohemians, spongers, swindlers, and vagrants.
Wheedlers flattered him for gain: "The watch of a nobleman you carry" and "The ring would buy a field," said those about Sion; "Never seen a more exact fact simily of King George in my life than you," cried spongers in London public-houses.
The very bookmakers scarcely had the heart to offer him false prices, and only the public-house spongers gave him no law.
Only the spongers were indifferent; but they had, of course, to look around for another liberal spendthrift.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1978–2022).