(1) Now, as Romney admits, the wealthy deem virtually half the voting public as irredeemably shiftless moochers.
(2) Cavuto: Others have said that you just kissed half the electorate goodbye, that you all but called them moochers: did you?
(3) Given Rand's association with plutocrats – she depicted captains of industry as "producers" besieged by parasitic "moochers" – the headquarters are unexpectedly modest.
Sponger
Definition:
(n.) One who sponges, or uses a sponge.
(n.) One employed in gathering sponges.
(n.) Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had described them as “spongers”, the man told the BBC.
(2) At the other end of the market Roger Martin, a local teacher running for the hard-left Front de Gauche, warned of a climate in France where myths about immigrant criminals and so-called benefits spongers were taking hold.
(3) Harvey is a telling target: a fitting symbol of the myth that it is the shirkers and spongers around us who are to blame for our ills.
(4) The German backlash was severe, with the media denouncing Greek spongers and feckless southern Europeans while attacking Merkel for betraying the principles supposed to underpin the euro.
(5) Bending primarily inoperable omphalocele can be avoided by simply using Stülpa tube-dressing together with a spongering.
(6) Calling on “decent” Germans to act, she said: “If you’re not of the opinion that all refugees are spongers who should be hunted down, burned or gassed, then you should make that known, oppose it, open your mouth, maintain an attitude, pillory people in public.” 'Flowers, candles and coffee were waiting for us': Syrians find warm welcome in Germany Read more Her appeal came a day after the head of the intelligence service, Hans-Georg Maassen, warned that a small number of rightwing extremists were in danger of escalating a wave of attacks.