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
  • The detention came three days after The Sacramento Bee first reported on Superintendent Cancy McArn’s letter requesting a meeting with city officials to strengthen communication with the district.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Start by requesting a complete list of available discounts from your insurer and reviewing which ones are currently applied.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • Let’s hand out some position grades for a team that is begging for complementary football ahead of a matchup against the San Francisco 49ers next week.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Nov. 2026
  • My body was begging me to rest, and my brain wouldn’t let it.
    — Alyssa Jaffee, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of begging
Verb
  • The end result has given rise to an insidious and often disturbing form of violence that wins victims’ trust before preying upon them or coercing them into hurting others – for money, for social media clout or sometimes for no reason at all.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
  • 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
Definition of coercing
Verb
  • Polson did not respond to messages asking him to confirm all the books are his.
    — TODD WALLACK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Law enforcement were asking people to avoid the area and allow emergency personnel to conduct their investigation safely.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of asking
Verb
  • The protests began in late September with high-school students demanding better conditions, before university students and unions joined.
    — Jack Sommers, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026
  • It's been difficult to retain staff with the medical expertise to treat everything from heart attacks to injuries to fragile newborns, and who can stick with the demanding job without burning out.
    — Elaine Appleton-Grant, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of demanding
Verb
  • In the past year, at least eight ICE detention facilities across the country have been subject to court orders requiring changes to unconstitutional conditions.
    — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • That puts considerable performance into a relatively compact package, without requiring riders to move up to a larger motorcycle.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 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
  • Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is famous for conjuring electricity from thin air.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The choice wasn’t nostalgic but a way of conjuring newsreels and documentary record, with a handheld immediacy that keeps the audience in the room with the horror.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of conjuring

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“Cadging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadging. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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