Good-for-nothing

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person of little worth or usefulness.

    "Americans might have taken some comfort from the fact that these critics also expressed similar misgivings about Rhodes Scholars coming from elsewhere. Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education."

  2. 2
    an idle worthless person wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Useless; worthless. idiomatic, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    without merit; of little or no value or use wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
bad lotbeachcomberbeggarbeggarly fellowblighterbone-lazy

Example

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"She divorced her good-for-nothing husband because she was disgusted with him."

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