The word "scrounger" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who avoids doing work and relies on others to provide for them, often in a negative or derogatory way. Example: The new employee was seen as a scrounger by his colleagues, always asking for favors and avoiding his responsibilities.
And it's to be classified as a scrounger – for the cardinal sin of not being as well as other people.
As she said in June: "Until people realise benefits doesn't mean scrounger and austerity isn't a fun middle-class way to grow your own vegetables, there's still a lot of work to do".
ACCORDING to Viacom, an "old-media" giant, YouTube is not only a hugely popular video-sharing website, but also a scrounger that "has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others' creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google".
Democrats invoke "working families" to remind voters that "poor" and "scrounger" do not mean the same thing.Democrats can be shameless, too: the campaign ad showing Paul Ryan tossing an old lady in a wheelchair off a cliff was not exactly nuanced.
He will be an honest scrounger of federal money, but still a scrounger.
ACCORDING to Viacom, an "old-media" giant, YouTube is not only a phenomenally popular video-sharing website but also a scrounger that "has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others' creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google".
That is why the European Union enforces tough limits on what it calls "state aid".If Mr Liveris is troubled by the thought that small-government types would consider him a scrounger, he does not show it.
The mission is led by an officer known as "Big X" (played by Richard Attenborough), and key coconspirators include "The Cooler King" (McQueen), "The Manufacturer" (James Coburn), "The Scrounger" (James Garner), and "Tunnel King" (Charles Bronson).
#AskNigelFarage Can we have money back you have had from your salary and expenses as an MEP because you have hardly attended #scrounger As a gay man, how much are you willing to pay me to stop the rain and flooding?
As the economic catastrophe that began four years ago led to a national jobs' crisis – there are now over six million people looking for full-time work – the "scrounger'"caricature perversely has become more and more popular.
With public coffers emptying faster than a leaky bucket and "benefit scrounger" rhetoric losing steam, tax avoidance has become moral outrage magnet for both left and right.
