Crossword-Solution: DEADBEAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deadbeat | a. | Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “DEADBEAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lazy useless person | 1 answer |
| Recidivist reneger | 1 answer |
| Persistent nonpayer | 1 answer |
| One who ignores bills | 1 answer |
| One who doesn't pay debts | 1 answer |
| Debt ignorer | 1 answer |
| DANDO | 1 answer |
| Collection agency's target | 1 answer |
| Bill ignorer | 1 answer |
| All tired out: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| A socially undesirable person | 1 answer |
| Non-payer? | 2 answers |
| Poor credit risk | 2 answers |
| One who gets no credit? | 2 answers |
| Exhausted: Slang. | 2 answers |
| Tired out: Slang. | 2 answers |
| Human sponge | 3 answers |
| Down-and-outer. | 4 answers |
| Whacked | 8 answers |
| Tired (out) | 8 answers |
| Freeloader | 14 answers |
| sponger | 17 answers |
| Panting | 27 answers |
| "___ loser" | 38 answers |
| hors de combat | 40 answers |
| Sponge | 42 answers |
| shirker | 43 answers |
| lazy person | 47 answers |
| Impotent | 52 answers |
| Loafer | 54 answers |
| Exhausted | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEADBEAT (5)
Paradoxically, activists in the Women's Liberation movement are seriously considering the return to polygamy, as an alternative to the increasing number of deadbeat dads and the misery of abandoned wives and children.
With pain and labor, lifting one foot over the other, as a drummer handles his sticks, he took a few steps from his place,--his motions and the deadbeat of the misshapen boots announcing to my practised eye and ear the malformation which is called in learned language talipes varus, or inverted club-foot.
What we need is, as Matthew Arnold says of life, "to see Australia steadily and see it whole." It is not wise to allow the "deadbeat"--the remittance man, the gaunt shepherd with his starving flocks and herds, the free selector on an arid patch, the drink shanty where the rouseabouts and shearers knock down their cheques, the race meeting where high and low, rich and poor, are filled with the gambler's ill luck--fill the foreground of the picture of Australian life.
Another little kink in his brain might have made a poet of him, just as the smallest turn of chance might have made a deadbeat of almost any poet of parts.
The bartender, accepting the situation as generally inclusive, put his hands up along with his deadbeat patrons.
Quotes with DEADBEAT (3)
I knew I sounded hysterical, and Adrian’s calmness only drove that home. “I think I have an idea,” he said. “An idea that’ll get us some hardcore protection … but I don’t know how you’ll feel about it.”“I’m open to anything,” I assured him. He hesitated a moment and gave a decisive nod. Then, to my complete and utter astonishment, he got down on his knees before me and clasped my hands in his. “Sydney Katherine Sage,” he said, his green eyes full of love and earnestness. “Wou…
I keep saying that i wish our black women would not stop raising their sons to be like the niggas who left them. I see mothers covering for their deadbeat sons, putting some other child's mother through the same shit, her babyfather put her through. We have spent the last few decades blaming absentee fathers for the lack of "graces" among our young men forgetting that they are raised by women. Women have always been other women's worst enemies. Maybe we need to start asking o…
They say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was pitch black by the time I arrived at the Marriott. However I still had a few bullets left for my deadbeat uncle that tried to stab me in the back.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1954–2016).