Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person of little worth or usefulness.
- adj. Having little worth; useless.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of no value or use; worthless; shiftless; idle.
- n. An idle, worthless person.
Wiktionary
- n. A person of little worth or usefulness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an idle worthless person
- adj. without merit
Examples
“Baffles me that these good-for-nothing jerks actually get away with all this nonsense.”
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“Young Melanie scores in her feature debut as the teenage temptress, and look for James Woods in an early role as Delly's good-for-nothing boyfriend.”
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“No, it doesn't matter where, the problem is really that these good-for-nothing Canadians elected a Muslim in the first place.”
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“The villagers "don't turn to the government but turn to the good-for-nothing foreign media, who will only be pleased if our socialist country falls apart," Mr. Zheng said.”
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“Three Balti House Losers Paul Chowdhry, Amit Shah, and Sonell Dadral are Mohan's good-for-nothing friends who are always trying to latch onto a get-rich quick scheme.”
““Stop hanging around your good-for-nothing half-brother and that scheming bitch from Idaho.””
“Fact of the matter is this one leveled your second grade JEW behind and there was no answer to FACTUAL STATEMENTS PRESENTED so you do as all good-for-nothing DUAL CITIZENS DO … ….”
“Zimzone says: evangenital says: What an improvement she is over that fat good-for-nothing Hastert.”
“What an improvement she is over that fat good-for-nothing Hastert.”
“Who is going to do all those low paid crappy jobs those good-for-nothing fake disability welfare crackers are either too lazy or too stupid refuse to do?”
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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old-fashioned
the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas, the cat's meow, 23-skidoo, have no opinion of, conk out, have no time for, pitching woo, dressed to the nines, paint the town red, putting on the ritz, have an attachmen... and 47 more...
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