The phrase "a deadbeat of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe someone who is a deadbeat in relation to something, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "He was known as a deadbeat of the community, always avoiding responsibilities."
Alternatives: "a freeloader" or "a slacker".
"He moved in and was kind of a deadbeat from the get-go," Pyper said of Oliver.
New York has a Deadbeat Hall of Shame, listing fathers who have not paid child support.
This paper proposes a digital morphological filter to be applied on reference signals for a deadbeat control of a doubly fed induction generator.
Still, this, also from Mr. Vogel, looks harder to explain: Hillary Rodham Clinton's cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles.
The Politico reports that the Clinton campaign, however, "has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles".
The film's primary antagonist, he refers to the Dude dismissively as "a bum" and a "deadbeat" in the perspective of referencing the hippie lifestyle, and is obsessed with "achievement".
Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) lives in a deadbeat rural region of Japan with her feisty gran and loser dad, but this doesn't stop her obsessing over Rococo-era France, grooving to Johann Strauss and dressing like a Marie Antoinette shepherdess in frocks from a Tokyo clothes store called Baby, the Stars Shine Bright.
Mr. Cole's books, which quickly became a staple of public library reference shelves, were a boon to people in a range of fields: a direct-mail marketer could aim at customers in prime neighborhoods; a detective could press neighbors for the whereabouts of a deadbeat; a reporter on the trail of an ax murderer could phone the family next door to be told, "He was always such a quiet boy".
The coming-of-age drama casts Chandler as a deadbeat dad, the kind of guy who loves Key West more than any person not named Jimmy Buffett should and finds getting drunk preferable with hanging out with his estranged son.
The estate's named executrix, the philanthropist Jacqueline Miller Rice, had been something of a deadbeat guardian, failing to return letters from scholars in search of Powell breadcrumbs or to deliver any of Powell's materials to academic archives for public use.
Such threat is the very antithesis of fiscal responsibility and the very definition of a deadbeat.
