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Definition of sponger in English: spongernoun ˈspʌn(d)ʒəˈspəndʒər 1informal A person who lives at others' expense. Example sentencesExamples - Asylum-seekers and refugees are not spongers and freeloaders, according to Minister O'Donoghue.
- With considerable pride, Ireland can claim to have given the world a new kind of sponger: the loaded freeloader.
- Also last week, Mr Blair's welfare system came under fire for promoting professional spongers.
- He was a sponger even when he had money of his own.
- MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
- Looks like I'll never be a decent sponger, at least not consciously.
- That huge sums could be diverted to those in genuine need - not least the mentally ill - if the spongers were stopped seems to fall on deaf ears.
- ‘The fact that the vast majority of recently arrived asylum seekers are excluded from the workplace creates a situation where they are seen as spongers,’ he believes.
- By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
- Yet these men are the real spongers who literally rob us of millions.
- These journeys would take great courage and stamina - a fact that is hard to square with the common perception of immigrants as work-shy spongers.
- As a consequence they were parasites and spongers.
- Refugees are frequently termed freeloaders and spongers by resentful Irish, even by certain politicians.
- We also want to show people we are not spongers, but ordinary people, like anyone else.
- These people are spongers and are chancing their arm.
- They believe social welfare recipients are spongers who could find work if they only got on their bike.
- Lounging around at home like a loafing sponger will create mass inflation plunging Britain into an economic ice-age, say the London - based layabouts' collective.
- So does it make you a sponger to get money from the State to buy a baby's buggy?
- The message from the Committee is if you watch the picture please pay up and don't be a sponger.
- The prevalent idea that immigrants are spongers is also refuted by the data.
Synonyms parasite, hanger-on, leech, scrounger, passenger, drone, beggar informal freeloader, junketeer, sponge, cadger, bum, bloodsucker British informal ligger North American informal mooch, moocher, schnorrer Australian/New Zealand informal bludger 2A person who applies decoration to pottery with a sponge.
Rhymes blunger, conjure, expunger, plunger Definition of sponger in US English: spongernounˈspənjərˈspəndʒər 1informal A person who lives at others' expense. Example sentencesExamples - Asylum-seekers and refugees are not spongers and freeloaders, according to Minister O'Donoghue.
- That huge sums could be diverted to those in genuine need - not least the mentally ill - if the spongers were stopped seems to fall on deaf ears.
- Also last week, Mr Blair's welfare system came under fire for promoting professional spongers.
- As a consequence they were parasites and spongers.
- These journeys would take great courage and stamina - a fact that is hard to square with the common perception of immigrants as work-shy spongers.
- MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
- We also want to show people we are not spongers, but ordinary people, like anyone else.
- So does it make you a sponger to get money from the State to buy a baby's buggy?
- Yet these men are the real spongers who literally rob us of millions.
- Lounging around at home like a loafing sponger will create mass inflation plunging Britain into an economic ice-age, say the London - based layabouts' collective.
- They believe social welfare recipients are spongers who could find work if they only got on their bike.
- With considerable pride, Ireland can claim to have given the world a new kind of sponger: the loaded freeloader.
- The prevalent idea that immigrants are spongers is also refuted by the data.
- The message from the Committee is if you watch the picture please pay up and don't be a sponger.
- He was a sponger even when he had money of his own.
- Looks like I'll never be a decent sponger, at least not consciously.
- ‘The fact that the vast majority of recently arrived asylum seekers are excluded from the workplace creates a situation where they are seen as spongers,’ he believes.
- By the end he sees that in the house of the film star he is regarded as ‘a lackey, a sponger, a pathetic hanger-on’.
- Refugees are frequently termed freeloaders and spongers by resentful Irish, even by certain politicians.
- These people are spongers and are chancing their arm.
Synonyms parasite, hanger-on, leech, scrounger, passenger, drone, beggar 2A person who applies paint to pottery using a sponge.
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