An idle worthless person.
Derogatory term for a rogue, vagrant or vagabond without means of support; a good-for-nothing louse.
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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