“Others will envisage a scrounger eager to take advantage of state benefits.”

“I feel like a bit of a scrounger complaining but people over 60 are due their allowance and we haven't got it.”

“She wants everyone to know she is not a scrounger and that life in Britain for a newly arrived asylum seeker is a struggle.”

“Forget all that, forget any sort of reasonable discussion, let's just call them thieving scroungers again.”

“And these plays are not attended by dole scroungers, Trotskyites, hopheads or peaceniks, but by the decent ordinary people of Galway.”

“It is strange, in fact, that the perception of immigrants as unproductive scroungers has had such staying power.”

“Jack is thick with Joxer, his fellow toper and toady, an even worse parasite than the Captain off whom he scrounges.”

“The destitute Aaron scrounges to supplement his meager diet, tormented by the smell of hot falafel sandwiches from street vendors.”

“Levine, a metal sculptor who often scrounges for odds and ends to use, could not find anyone to buy the vaults.”