Not ever; at no time in the past or future.
1The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
2Call me a blackguard, a ne'er-do-weel, if I am mistaken about this woman.
3In other words, he was a do-nothing, a ne'er-do-well.
4Otto Alexander: the ne'er-do-well cousin she finds dead instead
5Here was a man who, at forty, was generally regarded as a failure, a ne'er-do-well.
6He recalled a ne'er-do-well called Jim who ran that Volta Theatre in Mary St. for a bit.
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8Did one ever hear of such a thing- ane'er-do-wellinsulting a workman!
9Those ne'er-do-well choristers needed as much advance warning as I could give them.
10Those ne'er-do-wells who'd slept in got what they deserved: they missed it all.
11At the racecourse, a policeman chases a ne'er-do-well across a field.
12But an old woman's the best nurse-ne'er adoubtof it.
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14The Ne'er-do-wells took their places and lifted their instruments.
15I have seen nothing of them-ne'er athingmoving.
16Edmund Hawkins set down the glass of gin and eyed the ne'er-do-well with a baleful expression.