deadbeat

How To Use deadbeat In A Sentence

• Consider the case of Iqaluit's reigning tax deadbeat champion, who owes nearly $162,000.
• It has always been irksome to publishers that they actually have to pay money to those weirdo deadbeats who wander in with manuscripts under their arms.
• You marry the headmaster's son just to climb up the social ladder, and he turns out to be no better than a worthless deadbeat.
• So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing
• The study, published today in the Journal Nature, used mice that were genetically engineered with deadbeat cells that carry a molecule, called caspase 8. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
• We need a much more effective way of reallocating responsibility for that income away from deadbeats to people who are actually taking the responsibility.
• Such before, in deadbeat heart dark boast air hostess is clever!
• I've known about the term deadbeat dad for four years; it's nice to know that someone else in the Cayman Islands is reading about the laws in other countries. Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
• Both share Lord Black's opinion that hacks are a shiftless lot of ignorant and opinionated deadbeats and the fewer the better.
• The goal of the audits, to extend into next year, is to flush out the bad loans, get them properly classified and provisioned, then start to crack down on chronic deadbeats.