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No-good   /noʊ-gʊd/   Listen
No-good

adjective
1.
Without merit.  Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, sorry.  "A sorry excuse" , "A lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" , "The car was a no-good piece of junk"
2.
Returned for lack of funds.  Synonym: rubber.  "A no-good check"






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"No-good" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jew). "You're a no-good, you robber. I know you for ten years now already. You cheated me when you ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... Indian. "Him fur no good now." Though we might camp on bare rocks and the fire lay dead ash, it was the extra Indian paddler who invariably went back to spatter it out. You know the white's innate love for a roaring log fire in front of the camp at night? The Indian calls that "a-no-good-whitemen-fire-scare-away-game." ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... there was one Love-no-Good; he was a townsman, but a Diabolonian; he also received his mortal wound in Mansoul, but he died ...
— The Holy War • John Bunyan

... proprietor's daughter, only she's a society girl and kind of looks down on you at first. Then, there's her brother, the proprietor's only son. He's the clerk in this place. He doesn't want to work, but his father has made him learn the business, see? He's kind of a no-good; dissipated; wears flashy clothes and plays the races and shoots craps and drinks. You try to reform him because he's idolized by his sister ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "No-good" :   banking, bad, colloquialism, worthless



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