(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.
Wheedle
Definition:
(v. t.) To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax.
(v. t.) To grain, or get away, by flattery.
(v. i.) To flatter; to coax; to cajole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
(2) Pleading, shouting, wheedling, cajoling: none made any difference whatsoever.
(3) At the risk of being a complete bore …” he wheedles to John Reid, then the health secretary.
(4) Bird, convinced he wanted to be a writer and performer, had been quietly wheedling his school to teach drama at A-level.
(5) Netanyahu should be wooed and wheedled, coaxed and cajoled.
(6) He is terribly afraid of seeming self-satisfied, and is trying to wheedle out of the photographer a promise that he won't make him look pleased with himself.
(7) Labour and Tory alike may wheedle, protest and whinge.
(8) In a cable dated August 2004 titled "Alleged North Korean involvement in missile assembly and underground facility construction in Burma", one of the embassy staff wheedled information from an officer during a visit to Rangoon .
(9) It has heard wheedling from France's prime minister: "We will do everything to get [the triple A] back."
(10) The fact that he privately bombarded ministers with wheedling letters, contrary to his constitutional position, was an open secret but the government fought to keep the details under wraps.
(11) He's nuts – he should be wheedling with me; all a photographer can work with is a gallery of expressions, and after 37 years of no success at all, I don't think he has the facial musculature for smug.
(12) He wheedled a few things out of me - that was part of the fun.
(13) Kadyrov's response was characteristically wheedling.
(14) In one respect, America’s aeronautical myth has to wheedle its way around a flagrant contradiction: Air Force One carries the commander-in-chief, but he is not in command of the plane.
(15) Parker, meanwhile, had wheedled $50,000 from investors, and the pair moved to California.
(16) On stage, it had added significantly to his air of menace and deceit; he was treating the beaming Mrs W with wheedling charm while another side of his face was twitching with twisted insincerity.
(17) We felt that Lego forfeited its responsibility to children by allowing Shell to wheedle its way into playtime and normalise its brand for the next generation.
(18) That intervention was almost certainly the result of wheedling by the FA, who seem so much more comfortable with this sort of provenly ineffectual princery than with being held democratically to account.
(19) Now, they get their celebrity fix from gossip mags, such as Heat and Reveal, which pull celebrities apart like a gaggle of playground bullies, wheedling out their secrets and laughing at their fashion fails, while for aspirational lifestyle, fashion, and serious features, they will buy Elle, Grazia or Instyle – magazines that appear to respect their emotional maturity and purchasing power.
(20) In an attempt to wheedle a confession from the lonely Stagg, she said he would win her heart only if he would admit to sharing her love of Satanism and child murder.