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- noun Plural form of
good-for-nothing .
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Examples
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Oh, sure, the Tea Party types don't want the government to pay for health care for the "lazy, good-for-nothings" who have no insurance – until THEY lose their job and health coverage or their son or daughter has a health crisis that their insurance doesn't cover!
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They make him sign confessions that he hates homosexuals, opposes gun control, backs all of America's military adventures, loves free market capitalism, loathes taxation and thinks the poor are poor because they are lazy, dope-peddling good-for-nothings.
Richard Schiffman: Was Jesus a Liberal? Richard Schiffman 2011
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Thank the airbrushed posters of skeletal good-for-nothings celebrities.
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When Giggs was, supposedly, the squeaky-clean family man © the Sun so beloved of his sponsors, there were still among his fans lazy good-for-nothings who gobbed and swore and sang dubious chants.
All this talk of fallen heroes is such rot. Having an affair is not a crime | Rachel Cooke 2011
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They make him sign confessions that he hates homosexuals, opposes gun control, backs all of America's military adventures, loves free market capitalism, loathes taxation and thinks the poor are poor because they are lazy, dope-peddling good-for-nothings.
Richard Schiffman: Was Jesus a Liberal? Richard Schiffman 2011
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I whacked so many of those good-for-nothings over the years.
Creep Meg Tuite 2011
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They make him sign confessions that he hates homosexuals, opposes gun control, backs all of America's military adventures, loves free market capitalism, loathes taxation and thinks the poor are poor because they are lazy, dope-peddling good-for-nothings.
Richard Schiffman: Was Jesus a Liberal? Richard Schiffman 2011
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It now is often seen by many of us regular folks as a narcotic to be offered to gambling, whoring, drug using, good-for-nothings.
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It now is often seen by many of us regular folks as a narcotic to be offered to gambling, whoring, drug using, good-for-nothings.
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Let us dispense with all talk of welfare cheats and lazy, good-for-nothings that don't want to work until we deal with the king of welfare cheats, the king of free rides, and the king of government handout checks.
GM's Free Ride 2009
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