no-good

[ US /ˈnoʊˌɡʊd/ ]
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
  2. returned for lack of funds
    a rubber check
    a no-good check
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How To Use no-good In A Sentence

  • The election was stolen, according to her, which I guess proves that 59 million people are not only dumb, they are also a cheating bunch of no-goods who deserve what they're about to get in the next four years.
  • Everyone loved the schoolmarm, especially the no-good son of the landowner and a young black man, called Sam, who brought wild onions from the mountains and jars of peaches to sell.
  • What I'm basically saying here is that he is a no-good hypocrite.
  • When the policeman said “drunk,” the word flashed red in her mind and screamed Bill Parrish, Sammy’s no-good, alcoholic, abusive grandfather. Two Days After the Wedding
  • He is delightful as the no-good antihero of this obscure made-for-TV movie.
  • Willy Harris makes no physical appearance in the play, yet is mentioned several times as a no-good scoundrel.
  • Mohammad Al Rahhal picked up the contraband gyno-goods at his local post office in Egypt: it had been opened by various puzzled customs and postal employees who, at a loss, defined the product in writing as "containing an unknown red liquid" - and awaited my description. Boing Boing
  • A crime of such selfishness, vindictiveness and plain no-goodedness that I hesitate to lay it before you in all its red toothed, black cloaked and villainous evil.
  • You enjoy seeing me suffer, don't you, you no-good, lousy harpy of a nurse?
  • She's much too young for the kind of life she's forced to lead, much too young to be bashed up by a no-good husband, and much too gutsy to let all this get her down.
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