Sentence examples for are deadbeat from inspiring English sources

"These are deadbeat dads, but they are not dead broke," said Ben St. John, a spokesman for the inspector general.

They may, of course, refuse to pay, refuse their paternity, in which case they are "deadbeat dads" or some other media-made word for no good.

It's almost like people know there are deadbeat dads, absentee dads, abusive dads, drunk dads, so if they're anything remotely nice or normal they get a parade, whereas if we are human for one second we are branded".

"Adults who knowingly put kids at risk by failing to buckle them up are deadbeat drivers; they should be held accountable just like drunk drivers," said Wendy Hamilton, a vice president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, in a written statement.

Last week, I wrote a check for five million dollars to one of your Super PACs, and this week the candidate goes out and says half of the voters are deadbeat dependents and it's not his job to worry about them.

This isn't because most teachers are deadbeats; bad apples make up a minority of the profession.

"The politicians in Illinois are deadbeats," Alicia Munnell, the director of the Center for Retirement Research, at Boston College, told me.

In the debate over whether the foreclosed are deadbeats or victims, co-conspirators with the avaricious banks or merely collateral damage, the agent nearly always takes the benign view.

"They are deadbeats, they are animals… they are child-eating, fang-toothed monsters".

His look is deadbeat; his humor is downbeat.

What her many fans will remember, and value, is deadbeat Zinzi's personal journey, towards a frail but determined integrity.