How To Use Ne'er-do-well In A Sentence

  • Oh, only a young lord who has lived his whole life as a ne'er-do-well. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Ed Norton stars in this film about twin brothers -- one a professor at Brown University, the other a redneck -- who come back together in Oklahoma when the ne'er-do-well, marijuana-dealing brother is implicated in a criminal matter. Ed Koch: Leaves of Grass (A Mayor Koch Review)
  • Where late-night casinos may still be considered by many as a hang-out for vice-ridden ne'er-do-wells, the online community can enjoy a game without the dodgy characters or stench of ashtrays.
  • Despite this, the work is a must for all Williams fans for its presentation of his favourite characters - the Southern belle and the ne'er-do-well male - in their most archetypical form.
  • Despite this, the work is a must for all Williams fans for its presentation of his favourite characters - the Southern belle and the ne'er-do-well male - in their most archetypical form.
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  • Using a procedure they will not make public so as not to give the game away to local ne'er-do-wells, they then freed the red-faced guard from the rear section of the van.
  • Oh, only a young lord who has lived his whole life as a ne'er-do-well. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Researchers gave 105 students at the University of British Columbia a description of a generic ne'er-do-well—for example, he finds a wallet on the street, takes the cash and tosses the wallet. Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
  • What do you expect of that ne'er-do-well relative who's always hitting you up for a loan because he's come up with a sure thing?
  • This is shown by the form; cf. ne'er-do-well, Fr. vaurien, Ger. The Romance of Names
  • The fox hunts could be brought into the cities: instead of hunting foxes, they could set the hounds onto local ne'er-do-wells.
  • I've known hordes of political plotters and ne'er-do-wells in my day and none of them would dream of putting their treason down on paper, far less sending it to a journalist.
  • It has three different sized grating thingies and the picture on the box very clearly shows it grating cheese, which puts a stop to the ne'er-do-wells warning me that cheese would bung it up.
  • The quickest way to notify ne'er-do-wells that you're a stupid tourist is to unravel a sail-sized map right in the middle of 42nd and Broadway.
  • • Finally, what about the ne'er-do-well who grabbed the spectacles from the face of uber novelist Jonathan Franzen? Diary
  • Mrs Martin was a widow and a washerwoman, and had a ne'er-do-well brother, a fisherman, who frequently "sponged" upon her. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
  • He takes over a pub from his Aunt Paula after failing at innumerable ne'er-do-well schemes in London.
  • I remember feeling quite sorry for the fellow, thinking of him trudging around in dead of night for that ne'er-do-well, Rakewell. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Ed Norton stars in this film about twin brothers -- one a professor at Brown University, the other a redneck -- who come back together in Oklahoma when the ne'er-do-well, marijuana-dealing brother is implicated in a criminal matter. Ed Koch: Leaves of Grass (A Mayor Koch Review)
  • We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
  • You can hear it in the tight-lipped anguish of Lady Hester Collyer, the suicidal heroine of "The Deep Blue Sea," who has left her proper husband for a ne'er-do-well test pilot. Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian
  • There's the super-talented, ne'er-do-well point guard, who is signed to a long-term deal.
  • Hold on, there's more: the structure also must be portable, collapsible and secure enough to prevent ne'er-do-wells from waltzing off with the art.
  • I despair and I'm disgusted at the ne'er-do-well southern makeshift politicians.
  • The fox hunts could be brought into the cities: instead of hunting foxes, they could set the hounds onto local ne'er-do-wells.
  • This latter activity comes courtesy of a controversial religious camp for rascally teen ne'er-do-wells.
  • However, we still hadn't found an actress for the peach role of the nutty, born-again aunt who tries to run everyone's life, particularly her ne'er-do-well son's, by using literal advice taken straight from her Bible. David Dean Bottrell: Farewell, Mrs. Cleaver
  • Another story today contradicts the theory that these scofflaws are a bunch of ne'er-do-well capitalists, or at least most of them.
  • Oh, only a young lord who has lived his whole life as a ne'er-do-well. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • She said I was a scrounger, a ne'er-do-well, lazy, good-for-nothing, living on her taxes and making my wife go out to work. WIDOW'S END
  • To make another thing clear, a gang is not a ne'er-do-well sort of thing; it is a gathering of vampires with a common belief.
  • With her curiously-named, camera-toting sidekick Rolf, Jemma takes you through a daily video diary for an eventful two weeks of quantum-transported best mates and ne'er-do-well lab technicians.
  • My older brother-well, he may have the law behind him, but he was a wencher and a ne'er-do-well when I left, and I haven't heard he's improved. Oathbreaker
  • I hope my labours (and, okay, those of the musicians) are enjoyed by the ne'er-do-wells.
  • He takes over a pub from his Aunt Paula after failing at innumerable ne'er-do-well schemes in London.
  • The leader of the quorum-calling ne'er-do-wells happened to be on the board the year that quorum was changed to 500 students.
  • You can hear it in the tight-lipped anguish of Lady Hester Collyer, the suicidal heroine of "The Deep Blue Sea," who has left her proper husband for a ne'er-do-well test pilot. Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian
  • Here, a woman is talking on the phone to her mother about her sponging, unfaithful boyfriend, justifying all his ne'er-do-well exploits out of love and possibly denial.
  • We'll see that he's the kind of ne'er-do-well who will bring his 12-year-old daughter on a bounty-hunting expedition. Exclusive: Henry Thomas Guest-Stars on The Mentalist
  • In scenes more normally associated with ne'er-do-wells arriving at courtrooms, the couple were ushered unceremoniously out of vehicles by muscular security staff in through a back entrance of the registry office.
  • The overall effect is of being in someone's ne'er-do-well uncle's living room circa 1978.
  • Show us a gun, and we picture a muscular ne'er-do-well in a balaclava menacing an elderly sub-postmistress. BBC News - Home
  • In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business.
  • I just hoped he had left a memory behind that would help me get a tag on his meteoric career and give a hint about what lies in store for bad guys and ne'er-do-wells of North Yorkshire.
  • As for her Cousin Martin ( "Marty" everybody called the gangling, grinning, idle ne'er-do-well of fourteen), Janice was inclined to be utterly hopeless about him from the start. Janice Day at Poketown
  • The tale of a ne'er-do-well and a love squandered, it has none of the bruised glossiness of Redding's version; Bell's voice owning none of Otis's burring depth. How music can reach out and touch us
  • These letters are familiar, occasionally intimate, but on the whole quotidian, recurring to her real estate woes and his ne'er-do-well relations.
  • There's punch ups everywhere as the country's titled elite and public schoolboys take on the invading punks, anarchists and ne'er-do-wells in a battle for dominance.
  • Researchers gave 105 students at the University of British Columbia a description of a generic ne'er-do-well—for example, he finds a wallet on the street, takes the cash and tosses the wallet. Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
  • We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
  • Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song, it's about a ragtag gang of ne'er-do-well schoolboys who gain self-respect under the wing of a kindly choirmaster.
  • There's punch ups everywhere as the country's titled elite and public schoolboys take on the invading punks, anarchists and ne'er-do-wells in a battle for dominance.
  • I've known hordes of political plotters and ne'er-do-wells in my day and none of them would dream of putting their treason down on paper, far less sending it to a journalist.
  • If securities regulators across the nation work together more effectively, Mr. Borg adds, they could reverse the traditional calculation by ne'er-do-well securities firms and brokers that "the reward has always outweighed the risk, even on bad products. In Alabama, Beware the Borg
  • However the meeting was arranged, why does the President of Taiwan want a meeting with the president's ne'er-do-well brother?
  • Another story today contradicts the theory that these scofflaws are a bunch of ne'er-do-well capitalists, or at least most of them.
  • To be sure, Falstaff is a rake, a ne'er-do-well, and a lousy soldier, not to mention horrifically overweight. Shakespeare in Love, or in Context
  • As folks enter the bars, they are now obliged to present an official piece of government-issued ID, which is then scanned into the system, cross-referenced with a list of known ne'er-do-wells and stored for infinity.
  • Moreover, those who ruled abroad often occupied the lower half of the sociocultural ladder in Britain, and were frequently reputed as ne'er-do-wells and superfluous men who presumably couldn't hack it back home.
  • I just hoped he had left a memory behind that would help me get a tag on his meteoric career and give a hint about what lies in store for bad guys and ne'er-do-wells of North Yorkshire.
  • Having chosen the estate in question as the perfect location for a comedy drama about a family of petty criminals and ne'er-do-wells, perhaps they should not have been surprised that some of the local kids turned out to be a bit lively.
  • In some ways his performance in The Kids Are All Right is a sequel of sorts to the role that first brought him to Hollywood's attention, as Laura Linney's ne'er-do-well brother in the 2000 indie hit You Can Count On Me. Mark Ruffalo: the 'journeyman' who's impressed Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Michel Gondry
  • He connected to dots on how Howard Hughes secretly funneled cash to Nixon's ne'er-do-well brother Donald (who dreamed of starting a "Nixonburgers" fast-food chain). Michael Hudson: Digging Deep: A Treasury of Books About Journalism
  • These ne'er-do-wells get it right from the word go, with songs pegged in the red, tempos that threaten to burst their seams at each turn and a vocal snarl reminiscent of Norway's Sweatmaster.
  • The sprawling flat features eight-foot-wide hallways, gargantuan skylights and impeccable plaster detail, all created for a long-gone shopkeeper downstairs and his ne'er-do-well brother.
  • With her curiously-named, camera-toting sidekick Rolf, Jemma takes you through a daily video diary for an eventful two weeks of quantum-transported best mates and ne'er-do-well lab technicians.
  • He roared and turned purple on hearing that his multimillionaire brother had died and left his entire estate to Biff, his ne'er-do-well godson.
  • He has to wait until his Rage meter is built up before he can unsheathe his mighty weapon and hack vampires and other ne'er-do-wells to bits.
  • And yet the offence these ne'er-do-wells give is as nothing compared with the harm caused by a vicious canker that is now gnawing at the heart of this sceptred isle, this England.
  • As folks enter the bars, they are now obliged to present an official piece of government-issued ID, which is then scanned into the system, cross-referenced with a list of known ne'er-do-wells and stored for infinity.
  • Using a procedure they will not make public so as not to give the game away to local ne'er-do-wells, they then freed the red-faced guard from the rear section of the van.
  • I despair and I'm disgusted at the ne'er-do-well southern makeshift politicians.
  • He connected to dots on how Howard Hughes secretly funneled cash to Nixon's ne'er-do-well brother Donald (who dreamed of starting a "Nixonburgers" fast-food chain). Michael Hudson: Digging Deep: A Treasury of Books About Journalism
  • Besides, had not her own cousin, -- though a remote and distant one to be sure, the black sheep, the harum-scarum, the ne'er-do-well, -- had not he come down out of that weird North country with a hundred thousand in yellow dust, to say nothing of a half-ownership in the hole from which it came? THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
  • He has to wait until his Rage meter is built up before he can unsheathe his mighty weapon and hack vampires and other ne'er-do-wells to bits.
  • As ever with this kind of thing, there was no word from the man himself, as he's a bit busy saving the western world from ne'er-do-wells.
  • Due to not having studied law, I move in the wrong circles and only meet artsy ne'er-do-wells rather than successful go-getting men.
  • He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
  • The quickest way to notify ne'er-do-wells that you're a stupid tourist is to unravel a sail-sized map right in the middle of 42nd and Broadway.
  • As if these strangely-dressed ne'er-do-wells were not frightening enough, it was discovered that five of the teddy boys pictured were from the royal borough.
  • I hope my labours (and, okay, those of the musicians) are enjoyed by the ne'er-do-wells.
  • And if their characters are not fixed, why the sudden reversion to type (when Terry smashes up his situation by introducing Sammy's son to his ne'er-do-well father)?
  • There's the super-talented, ne'er-do-well point guard, who is signed to a long-term deal.
  • If securities regulators across the nation work together more effectively, Mr. Borg adds, they could reverse the traditional calculation by ne'er-do-well securities firms and brokers that "the reward has always outweighed the risk, even on bad products. In Alabama, Beware the Borg
  • These letters are familiar, occasionally intimate, but on the whole quotidian, recurring to her real estate woes and his ne'er-do-well relations.
  • These letters are familiar, occasionally intimate, but on the whole quotidian, recurring to her real estate woes and his ne'er-do-well relations.
  • What do you expect of that ne'er-do-well relative who's always hitting you up for a loan because he's come up with a sure thing?
  • These ne'er-do-wells get it right from the word go, with songs pegged in the red, tempos that threaten to burst their seams at each turn and a vocal snarl reminiscent of Norway's Sweatmaster.
  • Sure enough, the surveillance set-up soon captured the toff ne'er-do-well rifling Allen's wallet.
  • Here, a woman is talking on the phone to her mother about her sponging, unfaithful boyfriend, justifying all his ne'er-do-well exploits out of love and possibly denial.
  • In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business.
  • What others called shrewdness she, remembering his Grandfather Barclay, knew might grow into blind, cruel greed, and when she thought of his voice and his curly hair, and recalled Uncle Leander, the curly-headed, singing ne'er-do-well of her family, and then in the boy's hardening mouth and his canine jaw saw A Certain Rich Man
  • We'll see that he's the kind of ne'er-do-well who will bring his 12-year-old daughter on a bounty-hunting expedition. Exclusive: Henry Thomas Guest-Stars on The Mentalist
  • Due to not having studied law, I move in the wrong circles and only meet artsy ne'er-do-wells rather than successful go-getting men.
  • More than just an epic and intricately plotted fantasy, Aria is an examination of the politics of slavery through one man's journey from ne'er-do-well scallywag to leader of the free world. Archive 2009-12-01
  • However the meeting was arranged, why does the President of Taiwan want a meeting with the president's ne'er-do-well brother?
  • In some ways his performance in The Kids Are All Right is a sequel of sorts to the role that first brought him to Hollywood's attention, as Laura Linney's ne'er-do-well brother in the 2000 indie hit You Can Count On Me. Mark Ruffalo: the 'journeyman' who's impressed Martin Scorsese, David Fincher and Michel Gondry
  • In a nutshell, the ne'er-do-well Phantom wants to incite world war to make a fortune selling modern arms developed by his master scientists.
  • He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
  • As if these strangely-dressed ne'er-do-wells were not frightening enough, it was discovered that five of the teddy boys pictured were from the royal borough.
  • The overall effect is of being in someone's ne'er-do-well uncle's living room circa 1978.
  • The hoodlums are smart but not too smart, and the movie sets up a pretty fair match of wits and gun-power among the various bands of ne'er-do-wells.
  • His trip becomes a living nightmare when he stops off en route to pick up his ne'er-do-well brother Fuller, who persuades him to play a joke on a lonely trucker.
  • I remember feeling quite sorry for the fellow, thinking of him trudging around in dead of night for that ne'er-do-well, Rakewell. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • As ever with this kind of thing, there was no word from the man himself, as he's a bit busy saving the western world from ne'er-do-wells.
  • Yet local authorities and other ne'er-do-wells persist in mowing them at the wrong times. On the Verge
  • Having chosen the estate in question as the perfect location for a comedy drama about a family of petty criminals and ne'er-do-wells, perhaps they should not have been surprised that some of the local kids turned out to be a bit lively.
  • Why do we, in jaded, post-industrial America, buy it — the handsome ne'er-do-well with the plain, hardworking spinster? A Quiet Genius
  • This latter activity comes courtesy of a controversial religious camp for rascally teen ne'er-do-wells.
  • The leader of the quorum-calling ne'er-do-wells happened to be on the board the year that quorum was changed to 500 students.
  • In a nutshell, the ne'er-do-well Phantom wants to incite world war to make a fortune selling modern arms developed by his master scientists.
  • Where late-night casinos may still be considered by many as a hang-out for vice-ridden ne'er-do-wells, the online community can enjoy a game without the dodgy characters or stench of ashtrays.
  • I remember feeling quite sorry for the fellow, thinking of him trudging around in dead of night for that ne'er-do-well, Rakewell. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Unfortunately, that means it could attract the wrong sort of attention from ne'er-do-wells and miscreants.
  • The sprawling flat features eight-foot-wide hallways, gargantuan skylights and impeccable plaster detail, all created for a long-gone shopkeeper downstairs and his ne'er-do-well brother.
  • His trip becomes a living nightmare when he stops off en route to pick up his ne'er-do-well brother Fuller, who persuades him to play a joke on a lonely trucker.
  • However, we still hadn't found an actress for the peach role of the nutty, born-again aunt who tries to run everyone's life, particularly her ne'er-do-well son's, by using literal advice taken straight from her Bible. David Dean Bottrell: Farewell, Mrs. Cleaver
  • Another story today contradicts the theory that these scofflaws are a bunch of ne'er-do-well capitalists, or at least most of them.
  • He roared and turned purple on hearing that his multimillionaire brother had died and left his entire estate to Biff, his ne'er-do-well godson.
  • I've been thinking about expanding my targets to include derelicts, stewbums, winos, drifters, transients and ne'er-do-wells.
  • To make another thing clear, a gang is not a ne'er-do-well sort of thing; it is a gathering of vampires with a common belief.
  • Hold on, there's more: the structure also must be portable, collapsible and secure enough to prevent ne'er-do-wells from waltzing off with the art.
  • Due to my poor performance as a husband, father, and provider, I can claim the role of knave, or general ne'er-do-well.
  • Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song, it's about a ragtag gang of ne'er-do-well schoolboys who gain self-respect under the wing of a kindly choirmaster.
  • The streets of our cities are awash with ne'er-do-wells blitzed on pints of binge.
  • And if their characters are not fixed, why the sudden reversion to type (when Terry smashes up his situation by introducing Sammy's son to his ne'er-do-well father)?
  • The film then turns its attention to the Willingham case: of a perpetual ne'er-do-well, the father of a 3-year-old daughter and infant twins who was known as a short-tempered troublemaker. Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Incendiary: The Willingham Case
  • And yet the offence these ne'er-do-wells give is as nothing compared with the harm caused by a vicious canker that is now gnawing at the heart of this sceptred isle, this England.
  • While you get the impression that, if he chose to, Dog could lay a serious smackdown on a bail-jumping ne'er-do-well, that seems to be the furthest thing from his mind.
  • In scenes more normally associated with ne'er-do-wells arriving at courtrooms, the couple were ushered unceremoniously out of vehicles by muscular security staff in through a back entrance of the registry office.
  • We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.

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