good-for-nothing in English

adjective
noun
1
a worthless person.
If someone has successfully completed an epic, exhausting, hazardous journey to get here, why assume that they will become lazy, work-shy good-for-nothings when they arrive?

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1. You're good for nothing.

2. No, he's good for nothing.

3. You're just a good for nothing bum!

4. You bunch of good-for-nothing loafers.

5. A gun that's unloaded ain't good for nothing!

6. Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

7. Her boyfriend is a good - for - nothing layabout.

8. They are absolutely disgusting and they're good for nothing."

9. 12 Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

10. Burglariously, however good-for-nothing Artur peptized vaingloriously or Botanises

11. Even a good-for-nothing father never forgets a child.

12. They are never drunk one day and good for nothing the next.

13. The third slave was called “wicked and sluggish” and “good-for-nothing.”

14. Why is baptism “good for nothing” without the gift of the Holy Ghost?

15. The Demonic King Chases His Wife: The Rebellious Good-for-Nothing Miss summary: She, a renowned a.s.sa.s.sin of the 21st century, actually crossed over to become Su Manor’s most useless good-for-nothing Fourth Miss

16. A pretty woman ain't good for nothing but smelling sweet and laying around the house.

17. His sons Hophni and Phinehas were “good-for-nothing men” who “did not acknowledge Jehovah.”

18. 23 synonyms for Cur: mongrel, hound, stray, canine, mutt, scoundrel, villain, good-for-nothing, blackguard, heel

19. However, Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were “good-for-nothing men” who did not “acknowledge Jehovah.”

20. A SENSIBLE woman married to a good-for-nothing man—that was the situation of Abigail and Nabal.

21. Why would a woman, whose name make the martials world tremble, marry an ugly, poor good-for-nothing?

22. Why would a woman, whose name make the martials world tremble, marry an ugly, poor good- for- nothing?

23. Hophni and Phinehas were “good-for-nothing men” —literally “sons of worthlessness”— because they had no regard for Jehovah.

24. The same could not be said of Eli’s good-for-nothing sons, Hophni and Phinehas, who “did not acknowledge Jehovah.”

25. Abigail admitted to David that Nabal was a “good-for-nothing man” and gave David the provisions that Nabal had withheld.

26. The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Voltaire 

27. 6 At Psalm 101:3, we find David’s words: “I shall not set in front of my eyes any good-for-nothing thing.”

28. 12 Another “good-for-nothing,” or worthless, thing to avoid is entertainment that promotes materialism or the occult or that features violence, bloodshed, and death.

29. Belial (Beʹli·al) [from Heb., meaning “Good for Nothing”; a compound of beliʹ, “not, without,” and ya·ʽalʹ, “be of benefit; be beneficial”].

30. Backstabber’s will say the nicest things about you in your presence, only to turn around and tell others what a good-for-nothing, hopeless waste of space you are

31. Shimei, a Benjamite of the house of Saul, threw stones at David and called down evil upon him, shouting: “Get out, get out, you bloodguilty man and good-for-nothing man!”

32. 20 No one had a clue until modern genetics that a hive is a radical matriarchy and sisterhood: all bees, except the few good-for-nothing drones, are female and sisters.

33. This was Game indeed to us, but this was no Food, and I was very sorry to lose three Charges of Powder and Shot upon a Creature that was good for nothing to us.

34. Examples of Bounder in a Sentence a good-for-nothing Bounder who always leaves it to someone else to pick up the tab Recent Examples on the Web Austin hit a Bounder which filtered through Gandil’s …

35. I should just like to point out that there is a considerable amount of dirt...... ignorance, misery and discontent in this world...... and that a good deal of it is due to people like you...... because you' re a stupid, conceited, greedy, good- for- nothing...... addle- pated nincompoop