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Definitions

dead-beat

ADJECTIVE
fatigued
Synonyms
STRONGEST
exhausted listless weary
STRONG
beat bedraggled bushed dropping enervated overtired prostrate spent tuckered wasted worn
WEAK
all in blasé burned out dead dead tired dog-tired dog-weary done in droopy fagged out jaded languid languorous lassitudinous out of gas played-out pooped ready to drop washed out worn-out zonked
Antonyms
STRONGEST
energetic fresh lively untired
STRONG
invigorated unused
WEAK
alert energized keen refreshed vivacious

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

British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Only that that little dead-beat road in West Virginia may restore my fortune, after all," I replied.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson