The word "freeloader" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others without offering anything in return. For example, "She was a freeloader, always expecting to be taken out to dinner without ever offering to foot the bill."
Rory Stewart, Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border and chairman of the defence select committee, warned MPs that Britain could not continue to rely on the military might of America and be a "freeloader".
ON A SUNDAY in early June Muhammad Qatta, a roadside coffee-seller in the Syrian city of Aleppo, refused to serve a would-be freeloader.
The book also laid the groundwork for the Holocaust, stating, for instance, that Jews are and "will remain the eternal parasite, a freeloader that, like a malignant bacterium, spreads rapidly whenever a fertile breeding ground is made available to it".
Known as the Wizard of Wendover, Golka is thought of by most of the townspeople as a freeloader, and he chooses to blame the main casino in town, the State Line, for trying to oust him.
"Trial of the freeloader Brodsky," a sign outside the courtroom read, a little prejudicially.
When I started smoking myself, I realized that a lit cigarette acted as a kind of beacon, drawing in any freeloader who happened to see or smell it.
If they try to leave, the church presents them with a "freeloader tab" for all the coursework and counselling they have received; the bill can amount to more than a hundred thousand dollars.
The church says that it adheres to "all child labor laws," and that minors can't sign up without parental consent; the freeloader tabs are an "ecclesiastical matter" and are not enforced through litigation.
He said the church does require departing staff members to pay freeloader bills and to sign affidavits drawn up by church officials, but he contends that the affidavits never contain confidential information drawn from auditing sessions.
"What he was singing about that night made me feel less like a freeloader and more like a free spirit," Mr. Snider said.
For the Tea Partiers, the major intellectual distinction isn't between black and white — although that is the color of most of them — it is between deserving, hard-working citizen and unauthorized, foreign freeloader.
