| They believe social welfare recipients are spongers who could find work if they only got on their bike. |
| We also want to show people we are not spongers, but ordinary people, like anyone else. |
| But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes, spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time. |
| Few are spongers, scroungers and skivers and most just want to work again. |
| Baroness Thatcher, marking 30 years since she was elected PM, witheringly suggested Scots were spongers addicted to public hand-outs. |
| Refugees are frequently termed freeloaders and spongers by resentful Irish, even by certain politicians. |
