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Recent Examples of clochardIn summer the clochards like to live along the quay, sleep under the bridges.—Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
The beggars, widows, and families with sick relatives who once made a pilgrimage to the gates of the parliament building in the Green Zone to beg lawmakers for help are now barred from entry.
Ned Parker,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2012
All the beggars at the intersection of Lee Road and the off-ramp of I-4 are completely out of hand.
From the beginning, Autumn has always been the most mysterious character — a drifter who showed up in episode one to camp on the west pasture and almost immediately pushed Royal into the hole as an experiment.
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
15 May 2024
The now-deceased drifter from Cleveland was recently identified as the man who killed Janice Christensen at a Hudson park in August 1987.
Stephanie Warsmith and Paula Schleis,
USA TODAY,
19 Oct. 2024
His boys grew up as hockey vagabonds, moving all over North America during his stints with various franchises.
James Mirtle,
The Athletic,
23 Nov. 2024
Minnesota Vikings 12, Jacksonville Jaguars 7: The Vikings overcame three interceptions from vagabond quarterback Sam Darnold and not scoring a single touchdown to get an ugly win over the hapless Jaguars.
Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2024
On March 7, 1913, rescuers were desperately searching the same waters for survivors of the Alum Cine, a British tramp steamer, that exploded while being loaded with 350 tons of dynamite (nine boxcars’ worth) that was bound to Panama for construction of the canal that was underway.
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2024
Who wouldn’t dream of being the waif led to heaven by a dangerous love?
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2024
Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday.
In Thank You for Your Servitude, which for my money is the only truly interesting book about the Trump presidency, author Mark Leibovich goes into harrowing detail about how the modern GOP readily turned itself into a gaggle of mendicants to serve Trump on bended knee.
Jason Linkins,
The New Republic,
29 Apr. 2023
All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.
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