An idle worthless person.
Derogatory term for a rogue, vagrant or vagabond without means of support; a good-for-nothing louse.
1Then there was Mr. Evringham's younger son, a regular roving ne'er-do-well.
2He's a ne'er-do-well, a blacksheep and a disgrace to his family.
3Kind, as men go, but a ne'er-do-well, a prodigal, a waster.
4He was a drunken ne'er-do-well, but he was my man.
5He was a well-known ne'er-do-well among the Italian colony.
6Of his two sons, one was a ne'er-do-well.
7Shall a man who is needed by his family risk his life to save a ne'er-do-well?
8The sailors exchanged glances, probably thinking him a witless ne'er-do-well riding on some recent rise in fortune.
9Van Persie curls in the free-kick, which is diverted behind for a corner by another Dutch ne'er-do-well.
10It is the poor woman's ne'er-do-well husband.
11Every question is settled when some moth-eaten ne'er-do-well lets out what is known as a 'rebel yell.'
12I put him down as a scapegrace, for he had all the winning pleasant manner of a ne'er-do-well.
13He had idled and misspent too many years, been vaurien and ne'er-do-well too long to be sordid now.
14He became a ringleader of a gang that infested London; a thorough mendicant and ne'er-do-well; a pest to society.
15In the darkness of night our plan came to seem like an atrocious outrage upon a guileless, defenceless ne'er-do-well.
16He 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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