dead-beat
Example Sentences
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Point three is-some odd conflation between leaving people alone in their private lives and dead-beat dads.
From Time • Jan. 29, 2013
But on a rainy evening of "dead-beat, hungover idleness", he was seized with the idea of walking across Europe to the gates of Asia.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012
Instead of hating her for the transgression, what about feeling sorry for her that she can’t do any better than a dead-beat dad with anger issues?!
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2012
They show piercingly characteristic, dead-beat scenes from all over the U. S., with a heavy preponderance from below the Mason-Dixon line.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyway, there was a time when I tramped into the wooden cities along Puget Sound looking way more like a dead-beat than you do now.
From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold
