malingerer

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Noun
  • The beggars, widows, and families with sick relatives who once made a pilgrimage to the gates of the parliament building in the Green Zone to beg lawmakers for help are now barred from entry.
    Ned Parker, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2012
  • All the beggars at the intersection of Lee Road and the off-ramp of I-4 are completely out of hand.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
Noun
  • While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
  • Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • To position Cohn in bed next to Trump, a notorious hypochondriac, highlights their strained relationship as Trump rose and Cohn fell in New York high society.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • They are widely seen as overly anxious hypochondriacs.
    Evan Malmgren, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The birth of Spencer’s The first generation of shoppers to get hooked on Spencer’s weren’t the mallrat slackers of Gen-X or even the forever youthful Baby Boomers.
    Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Lisa and Abe will always be grouches, but there is value in being the antithesis. 26.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Warm feelings fueled by the wonder and kindness of the season, inspired by the transformative and timeless experiences of Ebenezer Scrooge who changed from a selfish, penny-pinching grouch, into a generous, happy and altruistic person.
    Eric C. Shuster, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Until the 1960s, Norton points out, about half of American women of legal driving age never obtained driver’s licenses—a fact the pro-automotive forces exploited in their campaign to paint pedestrian safety advocates as busybodies and worrywarts who just didn’t understand the science of traffic.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Former New York Federal Reserve Bank President Bill Dudley’s editorial Wednesday was the catalyst for this worrywart crowd.
    Bob Pisani, CNBC, 25 July 2024
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