[
US
/ˈnoʊˌɡʊd/
]
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 -
returned for lack of funds
a rubber check
a no-good check
How To Use no-good In A Sentence
- Before the night was over he was going to beat the shit out of that no-good, fucking drunk.
- Sam instantly dislikes the man and sees him for a worthless, no-good bounder, but Ellen is blinded by her need to be part of an extended family unit.
- Rather than playing a hero on his way up, Chow casts himself as a no-good beggar bent on joining a Shanghai gang.
- Set in a Scottish seaside town, the story concerns a mother who, having long ago left her no-good husband, has convinced her young son that his dad cannot visit him because he is always away at sea.
- None of these no-good fishermen who'll pretend to guard our equipment and then steal it-get honest men. THREE IN ONE
- Rep. Mike Ross, who flip-flopped on the public option and has authored an amendment that seems like a copycat of Max Baucus's no-good, terribly bad bill, has been in secretive talks with a Republican, Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), for weeks. Archive 2009-09-01
- After the appointment with somebody, I left no-good impress on others.
- Don't let that no-good father of yours stand in your way.
- ‘It is all because of that no-good thief,’ she whispered.
- She lives upstairs and comes down the fire escape to visit Jack whenever her no-good mom is entertaining, which is a lot.
