scrounge around

Examples of scrounging

scrounging

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Tolerated scrounging is more subtle and pervasive than portrayed here.
Reciprocal altruism, in particular, requires a suite of complex abilities not required by alternatives such as tolerated scrounging.
However, the evidence cannot entirely eliminate tolerated scrounging.
However, if scrounging could be partially controlled through non-detection, then both types of sharing may occur, with scrounging behavior simply occurring less frequently.
Indifferent to the martyr and without structural or formal connection to her, they mingle with common pigeons, scrounging in the slush for food.
Norms also vary cross-culturally with respect to the tolerance for begging, harassment, and scrounging behavior.
Tolerated scrounging might be overstated but it cannot be ruled out.
These instances of food transfer could also be described as tolerated scrounging.
The data on tolerated scrounging are inadequate for a path analysis.
This article attempts to organize available crosscultural evidence pertaining to several contentious evolutionary models: kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, and costly signaling.
Gurven attempts to organize the data on human food transfers and relate them to four nonexclusive evolutionary models: kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, and costly signaling.
Gurven's analysis cannot rule out any of the models (kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, costly signaling, or byproduct mutualism), and quantitative partitioning of relative importance is not feasible.
They are just reaching a stage which is called scrounging or pinching, and that is the way to become a criminal.
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