dead-beat

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Point three is-some odd conflation between leaving people alone in their private lives and dead-beat dads.

From Time • Jan. 29, 2013

But on a rainy evening of "dead-beat, hungover idleness", he was seized with the idea of walking across Europe to the gates of Asia.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

Instead of hating her for the transgression, what about feeling sorry for her that she can’t do any better than a dead-beat dad with anger issues?!

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2012

They show piercingly characteristic, dead-beat scenes from all over the U. S., with a heavy preponderance from below the Mason-Dixon line.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chief of all these is the fact that it is not what engineers call "dead-beat."

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.