Sentence examples for his deadbeat from inspiring English sources

His deadbeat father, referred to only as C, abandoned his family to a life of poverty so extreme that the children did not put sugar on their cereal.

That's how he got the idea of e-mailing his deadbeat buddy, directing him to PayPal.com, the largest of the new Web payment sites.

His deadbeat dad (Ethan Hawke) straightens out and stumbles arse-backwards into quiet contentment and a new family of his own.

But not even a game supporting cast — including Mary Kay Place as Duncan's cradle-robbing mother, Stephen Root as his deadbeat father and Peter Stormare as a loony hypnotherapist — can stretch the chuckles to feature length.

George Jean Nathan spun the comic version: the unconscious O'Neill being rushed to Bellevue Hospital while his deadbeat friends went uptown to beg his father for fifty dollars, most of which they promptly spent on booze.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the oddly specific series will chronicle "a touchy Los Angeles private investigator — and his deadbeat friends in El Segundo — whose cases frequently force him to cross paths with a who's who of Hollywood," and if that sounds at least a little Lebowski-esque, we can abide.

His look is deadbeat; his humor is downbeat.

His selfish, deadbeat dad (Renier) refuses to get involved, and so, agonised by this need for a father figure, Cyril falls under the spell of a local drug-dealer who needs an underling to do his dirty work.

He is upstaged by the dull figure of Brody's gumshoe, for whom the Death of Superman is a big personal trope: Brody's own kid is a huge Superman fan, moping around at Reeves's demise and increasingly finding that his drunk, deadbeat dad is no superhero.

Filming three or four days every year, the team – including Ethan Hawke as his semi-deadbeat dad, Patricia Arquette as the hard-working, Alcoholic-marrying mother, and Lorelei Linklater (the director's own daughter) as his older sister – literally age and grow in front of our eyes.

"Taking words from Paul was like emptying his toy chest, rendering him a deadbeat, switching his identity, severing his umbilical to loved ones and stealing his manna".