cadging

verb

present participle of cadge
as in requesting
to persuade someone to give you (something) for free He spent his time trying to cadge drinks from the customers. She cadged money from her sister.

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Recent Examples of cadging To her horrified astonishment, Miss Manners has received a number of letters reporting that guests are taking gross advantage of hospitality by cadging future meals. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadging
  1. requesting
  2. begging
  3. coercing
  4. asking
  5. demanding
  6. requiring
  7. mooching
  8. conjuring
Verb
  • Fuel expenses are squeezing daily household budgets and tightening cash flow toward the end of the month, with reports indicating a growing number of French employees are requesting payroll advances to manage month end expenses.
    — , CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026
  • After his arrest, Alfozan refused to speak to the FBI, requesting his attorney.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • Video on social media showed distressed shopkeepers begging young men to stop stealing their inventory—and those young men pushing them aside to grab shoes and food from their shelves.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • So your group chat has been begging you to host the next big viewing night, and your bank account is giving you side-eye.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of begging
Verb
  • In lawsuits filed last year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Playing that cat, a work camp warden coercing Hawke’s character into smuggling gold through the wilderness, is none other than Russell Crowe.
    — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of coercing
Verb
  • After the shooting took place, the university issued a statement on X asking members of its campus community to stay away from the area.
    — Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The neurologist emphasized that patients should feel comfortable asking questions and getting a second opinion.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of asking
Verb
  • Supporters of Machado have held demonstrations in Caracas demanding her return.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Of course, engineers still have to prove the technology can handle these demanding operations safely.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of demanding
Verb
  • Highfill maintains a covenant requiring utility rates to generate net revenues equal to at least 110% of maximum annual debt service on outstanding system bonds.
    — Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Policymakers have also moved to address associated risks, with a dozen states now requiring companion chatbot operators to disclose to users that their tools are not human, and to institute crisis referral procedures.
    — Ned Cooper, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of requiring
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the palace has been besieged by loutish suitors, led by the scheming Antinous (Robert Pattinson), all of them vying for the queen’s hand in remarriage and mooching off the absent king’s food and wine.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • On top of that, Nico is also, quite obviously, just mooching off/clinging to Mindy because he got cut off by his family.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
Definition of mooching
Verb
  • The cultural demons a 34-year-old playwright was conjuring a century ago rise up as dark reflections for our own.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Painter Sasha Gordon reckons with these depths and contradictions by conjuring realms where all facets of being can exist, unguarded and exposed.
    — Chanel Miller, Time, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of conjuring

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