A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage.
1 I firmly believe in the European vision, but I reject sponger membership.
2 The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
3 You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger .
4 He was not a sponger , but a man working for his breakfast.
5 Instead of consulting people of experience-ps ,ps , ps-first sponger that comes along.
6 It was mean, and yet what was he himself but a sponger ?
7 He felt he was no longer a sponger , a useless being.
8 Horse Chasseur acting as a communist artillery man, attended by a gamin sponger .
9 To get, and give nothing in return; to be a sucker and a sponger .
10 Banqueter was the word used for sponger in his day; what does he say?
11 Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet.
12 Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger .
13 I'm going to leave you here-andI'm going to charter the sponger out there.
14 The wise Homer, admiring the sponger 's life as the only blissful enviable one, has this:
15 I hate a sponger , and so did my father.
16 But what sort of a guess do you make at the sponger 's behaviour in war?
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