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Meanings of ne'er-do-well in English
Portuguese
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desastre Derogatory term for a rogue, vagrant or vagabond without means of support; a good-for-nothing louse.
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Examples for "good-for-nothing"
Examples for "good-for-nothing"
1
Vacher tried to explain: 'I'm an unhappy man, a cripple, a good-for-nothing.
2
It's impossible to raise the whole metro to defend one good-for-nothing station .
3
Grant's father considered his son a shiftless good-for-nothing for 30 yrs.
4
A good-for-nothing wench kissed me on the forehead, before I could prevent it.
5
A person who is constantly or continually criticized can become good-for-nothing.
1
Licking is strictly off-limits, especially for a no-account geek girl like me.
2
She declared that his trifling, no-account nature made him all but impossible.
3
Can't a low-down, no-account man like me even laugh where there's happiness?
4
Licking is strictly off-limits, especially for a no-account geek girl like me.
5
She declared that his trifling, no-account nature made him all but impossible.
1
I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2
I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3
Out with the goldbrick first.
4
We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5
He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1
Don't suppose I would waste time on a good-for-naught.
Usage of ne'er-do-well in English
1
Then there was Mr. Evringham's younger son, a regular roving ne'er-do-well.
2
He's a ne'er-do-well, a blacksheep and a disgrace to his family.
3
Kind, as men go, but a ne'er-do-well, a prodigal, a waster.
4
He was a drunken ne'er-do-well, but he was my man.
5
He was a well-known ne'er-do-well among the Italian colony.
6
Of his two sons, one was a ne'er-do-well.
7
Shall a man who is needed by his family risk his life to save a ne'er-do-well?
8
The sailors exchanged glances, probably thinking him a witless ne'er-do-well riding on some recent rise in fortune.
9
Van Persie curls in the free-kick, which is diverted behind for a corner by another Dutch ne'er-do-well.
10
It is the poor woman's ne'er-do-well husband.
11
Every question is settled when some moth-eaten ne'er-do-well lets out what is known as a 'rebel yell.'
12
I put him down as a scapegrace, for he had all the winning pleasant manner of a ne'er-do-well.
13
He had idled and misspent too many years, been vaurien and ne'er-do-well too long to be sordid now.
14
He became a ringleader of a gang that infested London; a thorough mendicant and ne'er-do-well; a pest to society.
15
In the darkness of night our plan came to seem like an atrocious outrage upon a guileless, defenceless ne'er-do-well.
16
He looked entirely like a ne'er-do-well who plays a violin in the street, dressed in the most down-at-heel, sordid respectability.
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