Example Sentences

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I’m working on bettering my finances—which I destroyed in my 20s—but it’s taking time to rebuild, and I don’t want to be a moocher.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2021

He’s not a moocher and is uncomfortable that our earnings are so different.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2014

To date these stones are rumoured to have been concealing capering Croatio-poseur Slaven Bilic, whispering anvil-head Ailsa from Home and Away, likeable touchline moocher Avram Grant, plus lots of very frightened woodlice.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2010

We've had a name for that for years: moocher.

From Time Magazine Archive

To all seeming, the Dutch peasant, smoking his great pipe, is as much a man as the Whitechapel hawker or the moocher of the Paris boulevard.

From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)