deadbeat
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That included online messages in which she ranted about her in-laws as well as her estranged husband Simon Patterson, at one point calling him a "deadbeat".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
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
In China’s housing market, there are plenty of deadbeat developers no longer paying their bills.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
“She doesn’t care about you or your mother. She only cares about saving that deadbeat father.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Yes, many more deadbeats, and even the public housing authority is pleading for relief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
He alienated many in his own profession, calling many fellow academics "dinosaurs", "deadbeats", "fossils" and "has-beens" in his autobiography, Avoid Boring People.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
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
In the past I had put up with her tantrums and said nothing when she'd yelled at me in front of the deadbeats, but this was asking too much.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
