deadbeat
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that’s because state and city laws make it difficult to evict deadbeats.
“Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts,” which first appeared in 2020 in the New Yorker, was inspired by their “deadbeat” uncle and their late, hardworking aunt, who co-owned a 1950s Americana eatery called Chubby’s Diner.
From Los Angeles Times
Alexei is the latest in a series of strangely compelling deadbeats for Harbour.
From New York Times
Is she the kind of collaborator we all remember from group projects in high school — the deadbeat who goes dark until the bulk of the work is completed?
From New York Times
Collecting the taxes people are required to pay isn’t soaking the rich; it’s stopping the deadbeats and freeloaders from shirking a burden the rest of us are carrying.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
