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- noun Plural form of
scrounger .
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Examples
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Did the so called scroungers ask for these new fittings to be fitted or is it the state that is at blame for giving this much material pleasure to them?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Did the so called scroungers ask for these new fittings to be fitted or is it the state that is at blame for giving this much material pleasure to them?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Did the so called scroungers ask for these new fittings to be fitted or is it the state that is at blame for giving this much material pleasure to them?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The idea of the dole itself has also gone through a number of transformations in the collective imagination, variously as a legitimate citizen's right, a state manifestation of charity, or for the conservatively inclined, an inexhaustible teat for so-called scroungers and welfare cheats.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Tim Lott 2010
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Did the so called scroungers ask for these new fittings to be fitted or is it the state that is at blame for giving this much material pleasure to them?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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After scapegoating benefit 'scroungers' and the disabled as the root of all evil in this country now it's the turn of some other folk 'not quite like us...'
Multiculturalism: Mr Cameron's crude caricature solves no problems | Observer editorial 2011
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They are 'scroungers', 'dependent', a 'burden' and often also irresponsible and on the fiddle.
The coalition's proposals for welfare reform amount to a moral crusade 2010
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Not surprisingly, this has engendered much discussion that perhaps it would serve Germany's interests to leave the euro, rather than booting one of the Mediterranean "scroungers" out.
Marshall Auerback: Bankers Gone Wild in Ireland AND Germany Marshall Auerback 2010
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Not surprisingly, this has engendered much discussion that perhaps it would serve Germany's interests to leave the euro, rather than booting one of the Mediterranean "scroungers" out.
Marshall Auerback: Bankers Gone Wild in Ireland AND Germany Marshall Auerback 2010
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Harryrobb, from Edinburgh wrote: "The next time that anyone in this newspaper complains about benefit 'scroungers', I will remember Liz Jones and her glorified begging letter taking money from pensioners and the poor to fuel a lifestyle that the overwhelming majority of us couldn't even dream about."
Liz Jones thanks readers for offers of help after debt disclosure 2010
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