[
US
/ˈnoʊˌɡʊd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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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 -
returned for lack of funds
a rubber check
a no-good check
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.