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Definition of Scroungers
1. scrounger [n] - See also: scrounger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scroungers
Literary usage of Scroungers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"In one place people were out gleaning heads of grain dropped by the harvesters,
and elsewhere the scroungers were picking wild berries or using sickles to ..."
2. Black Bazaar: Design Dilemmasby Ineke Hans, Ed van Hinte by Ineke Hans, Ed van Hinte (2003)
"Now it connoted scroungers and low-life and so unsurprisingly blackguard became
a term for vagrants and street children, living outside the law. ..."
3. Coping Strategies of the Unemployed by Johan Erasmus (1999)
"Participants can avoid the stigma of being designated scroungers, idle and
undeserving, by contributing their labour to community development efforts. ..."
4. The Enlisted Experience: A Conversation With the Chief Master Sergeants of edited by Janet R. Daly Bednarek (1995)
"Where are the scroungers? Where are the officers who fly airplanes through hangars
and under Golden Gate Bridges? Airey: You can't do that today. ..."
5. The Letters of Marmot Brown: An Anthology of Letters to a Local Newspaper by Malgorzata Dunning Publishing (2005)
"Whilst native lazy scroungers are supported by the state - ie you and me.
As Europe expands (eg the EU in May) we should now test ..."
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