deadbeat 的 2 个定义
- Informal. not paying one's debts or neglecting one's responsibilities:a deadbeat parent who won't pay for college;deadbeat borrowers.
- Horology. noting any of various timepiece escapements that act without recoil of the locking parts from the shock of contact.
- Electricity. coming to a stop with little or no oscillation.
deadbeat 近义词
freeloader
更多deadbeat例句
- It was during her work presenting debt research to Congress that she overheard a man in a Senate office ranting about “deadbeats” who had babies with multiple women and then avoided child support.
- Websites solicit lurid, unverified complaints about supposed cheaters, sexual predators, deadbeats and scammers.
- The claims have led one tabloid to brand Jenner a “deadbeat daughter.”
- No, they say, instead of their intoxicated deadbeat boyfriend, they want someone…someone like Putin.
- Anyway the phrase "deadbeat nation" is going to have a lot more resonance coming out of Obama's mouth than in Rubio's letter.
- It caught a lot of people's ears just now when Obama said, "We are not a deadbeat nation."
- When marriages fail, the deadbeat dad is the norm in American society, not the exception.
- Then he makes off with another deadbeat, and starts a kind of show outside the town—this was in Port Arthur, mind.
- The bartender, accepting the situation as generally inclusive, put his hands up along with his deadbeat patrons.
- The sparrow was deadbeat, and was travelling slowly to the north and west on a zigzag course, about two hundred feet high.
- I knew you looked a deadbeat, but Id no idea I was quite so bad, he said.