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
He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and dying.
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
