Good-for-nothing

"Good-for-nothing" in a Sentence (11 examples)

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

Everybody had looked on him as a good-for-nothing.

Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.

I'm a good-for-nothing bum.

She's going to ruin her life if she marries that good-for-nothing. Someone should knock some sense into her.

Some good-for-nothing at this gutter paper here spread this mare's nest.

The saddest thing in life is that you have to commit good actions to prove that you deserve respect, but it's enough to make one little mistake to prove that you're good-for-nothing.

Tom is just a lazy good-for-nothing.

My father was a good-for-nothing layabout who sat about on his posterior all day and ate potato chips.

You're a good-for-nothing.

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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.

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