cadging
Begging for handouts
Cadging is begging or mooching—getting things from others through persistent asking rather than paying or earning.
Someone cadges cigarettes, meals, or rides: He's always cadging drinks off his friends.
The word implies habitual, somewhat shameless freeloading rather than genuine need.
Soliciting money from strangers
- pleadingUrgent heartfelt request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- imploringUrgently requesting with emotion
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
petitioning · alms · handout · charity · appeal · entreaty · beseeching · requesting
panhandling
Soliciting money from strangers
- pleadingUrgent heartfelt request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- imploringUrgently requesting with emotion
solicitation · petitioning · alms · handout · charity · appeal · entreaty · beseeching · requesting · asking
sponging
Taking without reciprocating
- bummingHabitually seeking freebies
- parasiticExploiting a host organism
- hanger-onOpportunistic social dependent
deadbeat · freeloader · tapping · borrowing · taking advantage · imposing · uninvited · dependent · user · exploiting
wangling
Obtaining through cunning
- finaglingObtaining through cunning
- wheedlingPersuading through flattery
- connivingSecretly planning wrongdoing
scheming · manipulating · grifting · hustling · scamming · cunning · crafty · sly · devious · underhanded
- moochingmooch, moocher, freeloader, freeloading, sponger
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking