An idle worthless person.
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"
1Vacher tried to explain: 'I'm an unhappy man, a cripple, a good-for-nothing.
2It's impossible to raise the whole metro to defend one good-for-nothing station .
3Grant's father considered his son a shiftless good-for-nothing for 30 yrs.
4A good-for-nothing wench kissed me on the forehead, before I could prevent it.
5A person who is constantly or continually criticized can become good-for-nothing.
1Licking is strictly off-limits, especially for a no-account geek girl like me.
2She declared that his trifling, no-account nature made him all but impossible.
3Can't a low-down, no-account man like me even laugh where there's happiness?
4Licking is strictly off-limits, especially for a no-account geek girl like me.
5She declared that his trifling, no-account nature made him all but impossible.
1I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3Out with the goldbrick first.
4We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1Don't suppose I would waste time on a good-for-naught.
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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