Sentence examples for deadbeat from inspiring English sources
The word "deadbeat" is correct and is commonly used in written English
It is typically used to refer to someone who fails to pay debts, or someone who regularly avoids taking financial responsibility. For example, "John was a deadbeat who failed to pay his rent on time every month."
noun
A lazy and/or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support.
The deadbeat club has mostly consisted of the war-torn and the ungovernable: Sudan, Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone have all been members.
Even in this case, then, there are women who would prefer to remain single rather than marry a deadbeat.
Growth for the economy as a whole sped up to 5.4%.Compared with Russia, India or China (the three other big emerging economies that Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, grouped together six years ago into the BRICS), that still makes Brazil a deadbeat.
The insolvent debtor was a deadbeat who had failed to keep his side of the bargain; going into debt was a moral failing.Modern sympathies lie much more with the borrower, as is perhaps inevitable after decades in which consumer credit has boomed.
To our Martian, it might appear that America, not Germany, is the deadbeat economy.
The idea was to stop the state from having to pay the full cost of raising children after a break-up and extract some cash from the deadbeat dads instead.It has not worked well.
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At first, she writes, she "was on the lookout for cheaters and deadbeats".
This isn't because most teachers are deadbeats; bad apples make up a minority of the profession.
Although many struggling debtors still manage to win their forbearance this week four creditors arranged a ¥470 billion rescue for Daikyo, a property developer the banks are now less likely to sort out deadbeats' deeper business ills.A variety of new investors hope to fill the void left by the bankers.
