Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person of little worth or usefulness.
- adjective Having little worth; useless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of no value or use; worthless; shiftless; idle.
- noun An idle, worthless person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person of little worth or usefulness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an idle worthless person
- adjective without merit
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Examples
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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.
George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number
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“Stop hanging around your good-for-nothing half-brother and that scheming bitch from Idaho.”
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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.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
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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.
George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number
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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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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.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
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Baffles me that these good-for-nothing jerks actually get away with all this nonsense.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Compensation Philosophy that is Coming Soon to Doctors
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“Stop hanging around your good-for-nothing half-brother and that scheming bitch from Idaho.”
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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.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
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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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