deadbeat
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He laughed when I asked whether the U.S. could become a deadbeat borrower or release tainted data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Shortly before Potter was sacked last year she liked a tweet which called the Englishman a "deadbeat" manager who "doesn't know what he is doing".
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
Some critics say that the relationship between the couple is portrayed as too loving but Scorsese never pretends to hide the motivations that drive a deadbeat, grifter like Ernest.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023
The newly engaged couple’s celebration comes a little over a month after Alexis called Blueface a deadbeat after he was seen hanging out with ex-girlfriend Chrisean Rock, with whom he also shares a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
A single-parent home is all I’ve ever known, and Lucy more than made up for some deadbeat dad.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
Perhaps that’s because state and city laws make it difficult to evict deadbeats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Far from being "deadbeats", Nathan says all the young dads he's worked with "will literally dedicate their whole life to being the best dad they can possibly be".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023
Because he cares more than us deadbeats he has swept up all of the garbage!
From Salon ● May 23, 2022
“Like deadbeats dodging bill collectors, as a nation, we keep dodging responsibility for what has transpired, what was perpetrated, and that from which we have benefited,” Dorgan writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2020
I loved an empty city room, just the blinking terminals and a few deadbeats like myself.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
