sponging
Speech parts
1. sponging - Noun
2. sponging - Verb
Meaning
of Sponge
a. & n. from Sponge, v.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Antonyms
Show all antonymsPhrases with the word
Examples
I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
Yet people who benefit from this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government, spending their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?
Shameless sponging on friends and relatives ... Marx affected a hatred and contempt for the very material resource he was too anxious to cadge and use so recklessly. Marx created an entire philosophy around his own corrupt attitudes toward money.
Conservative measures Some limited evidence supports sponging or bathing feverish children with tepid water. citation The use of a fan or air conditioning may somewhat reduce the temperature and increase comfort.
Fielding Travel Books. p. 158. ISBN 0-688-03965-0 A small portion of the Euro Bahamian population is descended from Greek labourers who came to help develop the sponging industry in the 1900s.
Perhaps most notably, Conservative Peter Lilley pastiched "I've got a little list" to specify some groups to whom he objected, including "sponging socialists" and "young ladies who get pregnant just to jump the housing queue".