Deadbeat

Why would she go out of her way to help a deadbeat like you?

I'm not a deadbeat.

Who's this deadbeat?

Tom is a deadbeat.

Tom is a notorious deadbeat.

He's a deadbeat.

Tom's a deadbeat.

Tom is a deadbeat dad.

We organize against deadbeat landlords.

Poor Tom, stuck with such a deadbeat for a father.

2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.