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Meanings of ne'er in English

Portuguese
nunca

Not ever; at no time in the past or future.

      nunca
      Usage of ne'er in English
      1
      The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
      Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
      2
      Call me a blackguard, a ne'er-do-weel, if I am mistaken about this woman.
      The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
      3
      In other words, he was a do-nothing, a ne'er-do-well.
      Half a Rogue
      4
      Otto Alexander: the ne'er-do-well cousin she finds dead instead
      Shadow of an angel
      5
      Here was a man who, at forty, was generally regarded as a failure, a ne'er-do-well.
      Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
      6
      He recalled a ne'er-do-well called Jim who ran that Volta Theatre in Mary St. for a bit.
      The new yorker
      7
      End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ne'er-Do-Well, by Rex Beach
      The Ne'er-Do-Well
      8
      Did one ever hear of such a thing- ane'er-do-wellinsulting a workman!
      L'Assommoir
      9
      Those ne'er-do-well choristers needed as much advance warning as I could give them.
      Seraphina
      10
      Those ne'er-do-wells who'd slept in got what they deserved: they missed it all.
      The Irish Times
      11
      At the racecourse, a policeman chases a ne'er-do-well across a field.
      The Guardian
      12
      But an old woman's the best nurse-ne'er adoubtof it.
      Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
      13
      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ne'er-Do-Well, by Rex Beach
      The Ne'er-Do-Well
      14
      The Ne'er-do-wells took their places and lifted their instruments.
      Stories: all-new tales
      15
      I have seen nothing of them-ne'er athingmoving.
      The Golden Canyon
      16
      Edmund Hawkins set down the glass of gin and eyed the ne'er-do-well with a baleful expression.
      The notorious scoundrel
      Translations for ne'er