The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.

Call me a blackguard, a ne'er-do-weel, if I am mistaken about this woman.

In other words, he was a do-nothing, a ne'er-do-well.

Otto Alexander: the ne'er-do-well cousin she finds dead instead

Here was a man who, at forty, was generally regarded as a failure, a ne'er-do-well.

He recalled a ne'er-do-well called Jim who ran that Volta Theatre in Mary St. for a bit.

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Did one ever hear of such a thing- ane'er-do-wellinsulting a workman!

Those ne'er-do-well choristers needed as much advance warning as I could give them.

Those ne'er-do-wells who'd slept in got what they deserved: they missed it all.

At the racecourse, a policeman chases a ne'er-do-well across a field.

But an old woman's the best nurse-ne'er adoubtof it.

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The Ne'er-do-wells took their places and lifted their instruments.

I have seen nothing of them-ne'er athingmoving.

Edmund Hawkins set down the glass of gin and eyed the ne'er-do-well with a baleful expression.