deadbeat
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that’s because state and city laws make it difficult to evict deadbeats.
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
The members must contrive to pay the new guy off, which means redeeming the deadbeat’s paper.
“So, if some people interpret the album ‘Deadbeat’ as like, ‘deadbeat dad,’ that’s OK.”
From Los Angeles Times
"You had two faces," the prosecutor Nanette Rogers said, after making Erin read aloud expletive-laden Facebook messages in which she had called Simon a "deadbeat" and his parents "a lost cause".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
