dead weight
Example Sentences
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Now he had been deemed dead weight in Italy, too.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
“A lot of people are dead weight, too,” she added, asserting that the upcoming year will be about taking care of herself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023
Misguided, opinionated labor is dead weight; the high-up leaders know best, which is why they’ve earned the positions they have to begin with.
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2023
“I’m trying to understand how a person’s dead weight can be on your body and how his head can be suspended above your head?”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
The mist rolled over Christopher, up over his chest, his head, and he felt a great weight pressing down on him like a hand; a terrible, cold dead weight.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
