NOUN
- an idle worthless person
ADJECTIVE
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without merit; of little or no value or use
a sorry excuse
the car was a no-good piece of junk
a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
a sorry horse
How To Use good-for-nothing In A Sentence
- I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
- I'm a lazy good-for-nothing at heart, so I don't want to waste my precious leisure time paying bills.
- I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
- From the moment you met me, you decided that I was a good-for-nothing who lived for making trouble.
- The unmown grass, the ragged-looking shrubs, that pile of dead limbs and brush behind the poplar: Some would say, as my misinformed neighbors have hinted from time to time, these are symptoms of a good-for-nothing homeowner.
- 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
- As a result he was scolded by the cowherd's wife as a lazy ‘good-for-nothing,’.
- But you could do great things for this good-for-nothing school!
- She was going crazy and it was all because of her good-for-nothing family.
- I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for-nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. What Will He Do with It? — Complete