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Example sentences for: sponger

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Rather like the more recent scungy which, after years of use in Scots and Irish for a sly or vicious person, a sponger, suddenly found itself in vogue as a word connoting the general sordidness of modern youth.
Maenius with great spirit squandered all The inheritance he had from his father and mother, And so became an extra man and sponger, A parasite with no fixed place of his own, Who when he needed a dinner would gladly dine out On vicious scandal he spread with impartial justice About both friend and foe.