deadbeat in English

noun

1

a person who tries to evade paying debts.

Putting that aside for a moment, let's look at why the stated reason for this bill - discouraging deadbeats from skimping on consumer debt - makes no sense.

adjective

1

(of a clock escapement or other mechanism) without recoil.

Imagine the escapement-wheel of a common dead-beat clock to be mounted on a collar fitting easily upon a shaft, instead of being rigidly attached to it.

noun

• layabout, loafer, idler, good-for-nothing, bum, sponger, wastrel
• defaulter

Use "deadbeat" in a sentence

1. And fuck your con artist deadbeat family.

2. Originally he was a total deadbeat, right?

3. It's my deadbeat daddy's bitch sister-in-law Tanya's fault.

4. My father was a deadbeat drunk who died alone and destitute.

5. Her father was a deadbeat who ran out on Franny before she was born.

6. 20 A patient who cannot pay is turned over to a collection agency, like any other deadbeat.

7. 12 At first he talked about his father, a l 950s version of a deadbeat dad who seldom paid child support.

8. 15 A round-faced woman with thick black hair tucked into a head scarf, Saima had barely a rupee,(www.Sentencedict.com) and her deadbeat husband was unemployed and not particularly employable.

9. Booted is a comedy with heart about Will Kelinsky, a charming deadbeat who meets his inevitable fate when his car gets Booted in downtown Philadelphia due to a vast sum of unpaid parking tickets