Crossword-Solution: SPONGING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Sponging | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Sponge |
| Sponging | - | a. & n. from Sponge, v. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SPONGING”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Sopping up messes, in a way | 1 answer |
| LIVING off another | 2 answers |
| free loading | 9 answers |
| bloodsucking | 11 answers |
| leechlike | 11 answers |
| parasitical | 11 answers |
| scrounging | 11 answers |
| Parasitic | 12 answers |
| dueness | 25 answers |
| Rapacity | 27 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SPONGING"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
15 +2
New Suggestion for "SPONGING"
Related word tools
Sentences with SPONGING (5)
Trina, meanwhile, busied herself about the suite, clearing away the breakfast, sponging off the oilcloth table-spread, making the bed, pottering about with a broom or duster or cleaning rag.
Harry Burke started his free money movement sincerely enough; now he’s sponging on a half-starved sister for endless brandies and sodas.
While Harry was sponging off the mud from Hotspur's body and legs Dolly came in, looking very full of something.
And to behold him now, seeking small loans with plaintive condescension, sponging for breakfast on an art-student of nineteen, a fallen Don Juan who had neglected to die at the propitious hour, had a colour of romance for young imaginations.
Sponging her neck, she said, "Well darling, now that that pest is out of your way, I'm sure you'll have no problem." There was an edge of warning in her delivery.
Quotes with SPONGING (3)
See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.
It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your hands on any proceeds from this house because you would blow it all — on,' she gestured, 'whatever lazy layabouts blow their money on. Wine, women and... horses, probably,' she finished disgustedly.
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).