cadge
verb (used with object)
to obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship.
cadges
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present tense formof cadge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Levi cadges a tube ticket from the audience to use as a guitar wedge, they speed through one last aggregation of choppy guitar jabs and frenetic percussion, and Micachu and the Shapes are gone.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
Fiennes, exuding sulfurous resolve as Hades, cadges some sympathy for a god who is asked to align with Zeus, the younger brother who consigned him to the lower depths.
From Time ● Mar. 29, 2012
To minimize costs, he is based at his sister's apartment in Miami during the winter and then cadges accommodations all over the world by networking in the close-knit sailing community.
From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 1, 2012
Trevor cadges 40 winks on a sofa at Nick and Jan's, an excruciating indulgence, in Nick's helpless view, since Trevor had once been Jan's lover.
From Time Magazine Archive
In London Society everybody cadges except the millionaires—and they're cadged upon...
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
