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Scrounge
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But let’s not convince ourselves the rest are credible – punishment sensibly bestowed on the scrounging unemployed.
(2) Where those who are most vulnerable, most in need of help, are not seen as lazy, or scrounging, or robbing the rest of us for whatever they can get.
(3) I don’t really remember, I suppose I watched a bit of telly, scrounged around the fridge for something to eat … that was a grim, grim day.” His next choice of music, perhaps tellingly, was one he first heard while working on reconciliation during his time at Coventry cathedral, a poignant Advent composition by John Tavener.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) If you haven’t been scrounging the internet for Star Wars news, then you don’t know that Poe Dameron is Oscar Isaac’s character in The Force Awakens, who is thought to be a Han Solo-ish rogue.
(6) Indulging the Farageist conflation of Eastern migrants with scrounging and criminality was a very efficient way to undo any sense of gratitude or solidarity that was available in Bucharest or Warsaw.
(7) Then the subtext is of fraud, scrounging and dependence and the policy is one of draconian assessment .
(8) Once a promising student who wanted a career in chemistry, his priority would become scrounging a living.
(9) To grasp how this fits into austerity’s bigger picture, it’s worth going back to when the Conservatives began to sell the myth that Britain was filled with hordes of scrounging disabled people lining up to milk the state .
(10) When foreclosed homes are desirable to sophisticated, institutional, credit-worthy buyers, it stands to reason that banks will try to scrounge up as many foreclosures as possible.
(11) And the most insidious myth, increasingly pervasive, is that the poor are workshy , scrounging out chaotic lives in a nation where strivers are paying their taxes for skivers.
(12) A friend at a cartography institute later scrounged up some material.
(13) Briefly, he stood in Luton arrivals as a woolly-hatted emblem for a host of issues that reflect none too well on the state of Britain: anti-immigration fever, Europhobia, benefit-scrounging hysteria, a living reminder of our high unemployment, low pay, weak labour laws and slum housing epidemic.
(14) How we eventually moved to the dying coal mining town in West Virginia where my father was born, where we lived in an unheated shack, scrounging for food from the garbage.
(15) Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour.
(16) There were a few threadbare years as he scrounged for work, but not enough to shake his conviction in his own lucky genes.
(17) Do we want to be a society that is supportive, that is inclusive and compassionate, where it is acknowledged that not all can prosper, where those who are most vulnerable, most in need of help, are not seen as lazy or scrounging or robbing the rest of us for whatever they can get?
(18) She has been described as a scrounging gypsy surviving on benefits, living in squalor with her 'tribe' in a series of ramshackle caravans surrounded by snarling dogs, empty beer bottles and rubbish.
(19) As a result, he spent part of this year sleeping on friends' sofas and scrounging food wherever he could.
(20) So patients who are too poor to pay out-of-pocket have to scrounge together the money from friends or family.