The image of IDS as archetypal welfare scrounger is simply too painful to bear.
From the independent.co.uk
As for those who think anyone unemployed is a scrounger, please bear this in mind.
From the guardian.co.uk
How do you come to the conclusion of discribing this man as a scrounger.
From the express.co.uk
He will be an honest scrounger of federal money, but still a scrounger.
From the economist.com
Because everyone who takes time off sick is a layabout scrounger, and on the fiddle, right?
From the independent.co.uk
All of which counts for nothing because so long as you are out of work, you are a scrounger.
From the guardian.co.uk
Incidentally, the queen IS a benefits scrounger, and that is NO joke.
From the guardian.co.uk
So they get rich and everyone gets to tell me I'm a scrounger.
From the guardian.co.uk
You're either a benefits scrounger or you're a man-hating career woman who neglects her children.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
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Moocher: someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
One who scrounges
From an Old English word meaning "wander about idly," a scrounger is one who gets only what he needs, and only when he needs it, by foraging, scavenging, or cadging. ...