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good-for-nothing

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NOUN
  1. an idle worthless person
ADJECTIVE
  1. without merit; of little or no value or use
    a sorry excuse
    the car was a no-good piece of junk
    a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
    a sorry horse

How To Use good-for-nothing In A Sentence

  • “Stop hanging around your good-for-nothing half-brother and that scheming bitch from Idaho.” Legend
  • They're just lazy good-for-nothing ignoramuses who are much better at civil disobedience and rioting than they could ever be at the much more difficult task of government and administration.
  • Three Balti House Losers Paul Chowdhry, Amit Shah, and Sonell Dadral are Mohan's good-for-nothing friends who are always trying to latch onto a get-rich quick scheme. George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number
  • When Giggs was, supposedly, the squeaky-clean family man © the Sun so beloved of his sponsors, there were still among his fans lazy good-for-nothings who gobbed and swore and sang dubious chants. All this talk of fallen heroes is such rot. Having an affair is not a crime | Rachel Cooke
  • No, fancy stuff like that was for the layabouts, the good-for-nothings, the dreamers, those who didn't have a clue as to what was what.
  • Kathy has no hope for that good-for-nothing son of hers, of course, and so she's damn jealous of you.
  • That'll teach you some responsibility, you good-for-nothing schemies!
  • The purser attempted to stop her, but she called him a good-for-nothing nipcheese, and kicked and cuffed him, while Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
  • Finally, she saw what she had been hoping for: the worn out brake pads that her lazy, good-for-nothing father hadn't replaced.
  • Liz and I had to work and save and calculate just like other people; elseways we should be as poor as any good-for-nothing, drunken waster of a woman that thinks her luck will last for ever.
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