cadge
verb (used with object)
to obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship.
cadged
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past participleof cadge.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cadge.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cadgeverb (used with object)to obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship.
Example Sentences
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Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Later, when she orders the Athenian senators to step down or die, their unlikely answer — “We no longer are defensible” — is cadged from “Henry V.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2020
I remember sitting in a cafe one Sunday in my second year, having cadged two hours to study while Jon took the baby alone.
From BBC ● May 15, 2019
The battle scenes, which should have the taut realism and intensity of “The Hurt Locker,” instead feel like an unconvincing series of poses cadged from earlier, better war movies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2019
During the summer of 1935, John cadged a small grant from the Macy Foundation to travel third class to Berkeley, and presented himself and his mice at the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
