Sentence examples for the deadbeats from inspiring English sources
noun
A lazy and/or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support.
Line them up, let's revisit the deadbeats.
"You mean all the deadbeats?" she asked.
This week I have been mostly eating Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Afreeka and Bad Company.
One of 2012's biggest underground rock albums – this year's Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, perhaps?
Almost half of the deadbeats are defense contractors who owe the Treasury $3 billion.
Paul Theroux: Hotel Honolulu (Hamish Hamilton. £16.99) Sex and more sex among the deadbeats and drifters of Hawaii.
Others point to the deadbeat borrowers.
To our Martian, it might appear that America, not Germany, is the deadbeat economy.
"The other tugboats, they always went for the old alkies and the deadbeat people," Elsbeth says.
By Stephen Leacock The New Yorker, September 3 , 1927P. 14 Save me from my friend the deadbeat.
And we are presented with what Professor Zittrain calls the "deadbeat dad" problem.
