deadbeat
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I’m calling my shot: This will be the year that the Three Lions, the bungling, deadbeat clown show of international soccer, finally do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Just prepare yourself for a Frankensteined dog cop, a killer cyber fish, a plethora of puns and . . . a surprisingly empowering message about how we should regard deadbeat cat dads.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
When some of the families later sued, authorities often used information from those interviews to portray the deceased as mentally ill criminals or deadbeat parents while defending their agencies in court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024
He later calls Drake a "deadbeat" and suggests he has secretly fathered another child.
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
Mom presses her face into her hands, and Uncle Max rubs her back like she’s an exhausted, overworked mother dealing with a bratty, deadbeat teenager.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Yes, many more deadbeats, and even the public housing authority is pleading for relief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
He alienated many in his own profession, calling many fellow academics "dinosaurs", "deadbeats", "fossils" and "has-beens" in his autobiography, Avoid Boring People.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
She has dealt with her share of layabouts, deadbeats and heartbreakers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
We take fatherhood very seriously, calling out bad dads and disassociating ourselves from deadbeats.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2020
I was down to a day and a half a week when Valencia called a mover to cart a load of furniture to an apartment she'd rented for one of the deadbeats.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
