mooched

past tense of mooch
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as in begged
to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way

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as in snuck
to move about in a sly or secret manner I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mooched
Verb
  • By winter, as conditions worsened, Wasefi’s family and friends begged him to leave.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Finch begged for Conley to be more aggressive at various points last season, but the point guard never grabbed the reins with aggression.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • My thoughts wandered from one subject to another without continuity.
    Bill Shaber, Outdoor Life, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The unidentified body, which is believed to be a female, was found by a rancher searching for livestock that had wandered off, officials told WFAA.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
  • When Mumy was just a kid, Lockhart snuck him and his TV sister Cartwright into shows at the Whisky a Go Go during the height of the 1960s psychedelic scene.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • AlUla has morphed from a sleepy archaeological site into Saudi Arabia’s adventure playground over the past decade, where visitors revel in raves and practice sunrise yoga in the same valley the Nabataeans once roamed.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time.
    Regina G. Barber, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Less than two hours before the Raptors were scheduled to begin their home season with a game against the Milwaukee Bucks, head coach Darko Rajaković strolled into a small room adjacent to the team’s locker room, as usual.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On Thursday, April 3, Carey and Monroe strolled into the room while Moroccan was live on the streaming platform Twitch for about 10 minutes playing video games with friends.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The apple-munching Euphoria actor slipped into Tilda Swinton’s plush period dress from the ravishing 1992 drama, joined by Jeff Goldblum, Wicked’s wizard himself, in sparkly Gucci.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Shares of Honeywell have slipped 4% this year.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some from their cohort had gone before — Paul Newman in 2008, Shelley Duvall in 2024, Gene Hackman in February — while others have simply drifted from view.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Its path began in northwestern Tennessee and drifted south over the course of a year.
    Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Mooched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mooched. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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