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View definitions for sponging

sponging

adjective as in freeloading

Strong matches

noun as in bath

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Example Sentences

The biggest pre-election issue, Haredi sponging and shirking of military service, was captured by Yair Lapid.

I never had the slightest hesitation in sponging upon any human creature.

What if the sleep became a merciful finality, sponging out the aimless unrest men called life?

The large tin sponging-bath is itself not sufficiently portable to be carried as railway luggage, but there are many substitutes.

She found Robert with his arm doubled over a basin, and Susan sponging cold water on it.

We floundered in swales sponging full of dead leaves, and drew back, scratching ourselves on low-hung foliage.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sponging, such as: bumming, leeching, null, bloodsucking, and parasitical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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