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Good-for-nothing

noun

An idle worthless person. Synonyms: goldbrick, good-for-naught, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account.

adjective

Without merit. Synonyms: good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry. "A sorry excuse" , "A lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" , "The car was a no-good piece of junk"

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"Good-for-nothing" Quotes from Famous Books

... lord know such a good-for-nothing fellow?" interrupted Jankiel. But the lord of Kamiorika bade ...

— An Obscure Apostle - A Dramatic Story • Eliza Orzeszko

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... lie in. (Smith winced.) She never disgraced herself like that; and if he had sent the wench to service, or stopped her going down to that pothouse with the fellows, this would not have happened. She always told him how it would end. He was a good-for-nothing, drunken brute of a man, and had brought her to all this misery; and she ...

— The Toilers of the Field • Richard Jefferies

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... out from a thousand avenues of distinction and usefulness, for they are richly endowed, just because they are made to be women. They should not be made to feel that it is degrading to be a woman, to feel, as a man expressed it to me the other day, that "women are such good-for-nothing creatures." I love noble, "strong-minded," and strong-hearted women. I wish we had more of them. I know of no way to make them but to give our girls more active Employment. Every girl should have a trade, a business, a profession, or some honorable and ...

— Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women • George Sumner Weaver

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... ought to go to the picnic this afternoon if you are feeling so played out," Mother Jenkins added. "Your Ma will think I haven't taken good care of you. It was them good-for-nothing boys a-coming that wore ...

— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

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... good-for-nothing, and find out on dry bread that a noun's a name of anything, like helefunt, hantelope, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

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