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
  • Following her disappearance, Goods’ family told KTNV that someone started responding to messages using her phone, requesting money and Bitcoin.
    — Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Estime-Irvin did not immediately return phone calls requesting comment.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • This was in 1824, in London, and Shelley, twenty-seven, and two years the widow of Percy Bysshe Shelley, spent a season begging a mutual friend, the playwright and actor John Howard Payne, to set them up.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The title was the name of a red-haired, green-eyed young fan Parton met signing autographs, and the story of a woman begging a rival to leave her man alone.
    — RJ Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of begging
Verb
  • But in the past, these efforts were largely aimed at threatening or coercing Washington to act in their favor.
    — Dina Esfandiary, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The losses exceed the number of fresh recruits that Moscow can muster, and Russian authorities are coercing men into signing up.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of coercing
Verb
  • Organizations often compete for the same experienced talent rather than asking who is creating the capability everyone wants to hire.
    — Sheila Callaham, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Four baby goats from a North Carolina mobile petting zoo tested positive for rabies and were euthanized, and health officials are asking anyone who may have had contact with them to reach out for possible treatment.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of asking
Verb
  • Transporting these items is repetitive and physically demanding work that can take nurses and other employees away from clinical responsibilities.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • In the small town of Manchester, New Jersey, Anne Cahalane was among a group of local residents demanding a similar ban on large computing hubs.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of demanding
Verb
  • The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are seeking to pause an order requiring it to provide records in lawsuit with Inspector General while the city appeals.
    — Bridget Byrne, Baltimore Sun, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Measuring waist circumference has the advantage of not requiring specialized equipment, so patients can keep track at home.
    — Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 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
  • But John survives by conjuring bubble wrap to suppress the impact.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Rather than conjuring up flashy futuristic machines, this startup wants to give truckers the keys to practical vehicles that are easy to maintain, simple to repair on the road, and capable of lasting for years.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of conjuring

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“Cadging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadging. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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