good-for-nothing

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Your breathing becomes oppressed in the narrow valleys, and if you want to get a distant view -- there's nothing to be seen, for everywhere some good-for-nothing mountain thrusts itself directly before your nose.

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  1. noun A person of little worth or usefulness.
  2. adjective Having little worth; useless.

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