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- noun Plural form of
sponger .
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Examples
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In so doing it endorsed the agenda of the right, the government included, which is to distort the debate about London's housing crisis into an ugly row about "spongers", when it should be focusing on the lunacy of a system that too many landlords exploit and the chronic shortage of homes ordinary people can afford to live in - a shortage the present government seems unlikely to end.
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These avian "spongers" have a wide geographical range, inhabiting the greater part of the United States and southern Canada, except the extensive forest regions and some portions of the southern states.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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There is nothing that a Corean fears so much as that people should speak ill of him, and especially this is the bugbear under which the nobleman of Cho-sen is constantly labouring, and upon which these black-mailers and "spongers" work.
Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Challenging the widespread prejudice that housing benefit claimants are mostly unemployed "spongers" Pipe says:
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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He offered a bit of advice about where Ms Hanson should live, warning she should stay away from central London because it had become overrun with "spongers".
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Politicians quarrel over who abuses it most - workshy "spongers", as government Tories eagerly imply, or greedy private landlords.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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To judge from the opinion polls, the average Briton's attitude to this Leviathan involves a curious kind of double-think: keen on the services that the state provides, much less keen on the taxation that pays for them; mortally offended by cuts in child benefit for people who don't need it, reliably contemptuous of "spongers" on welfare.
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"spongers," on whom he was spending his last napoleons.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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The incompetent spongers will initiate the violence as they cannot be self sufficient.
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The incompetent spongers will initiate the violence as they cannot be self sufficient.
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