ne'er-do-well in English

noun

1

a person who is lazy and irresponsible.

This latter activity comes courtesy of a controversial religious camp for rascally teen ne'er-do-wells .

synonyms: good-for-nothing, layabout, loafer, idler, shirker, sluggard, slugabed, drone, lazybones, bum, busted flush, wastrel

adjective

1

lazy and irresponsible.

And if their characters are not fixed, why the sudden reversion to type (when Terry smashes up his situation by introducing Sammy's son to his ne'er-do-well father)?

noun

• good-for-nothing, layabout, loafer, idler, shirker, sluggard, slugabed, drone, lazybones, bum, busted flush, wastrel
• no-account, goldbrick, goof-off, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing

Use "neer-do-well" in a sentence

1. That student went on to become a drug addict and a ne'er-do-well.

2. That student went on to become a drug addict and a ne'er-do-well. The teacher went on to become science advisor in the current administration.

3. Does not "Beflum" outclass "befool" or "cajole"? To be able to claim that you have skelped a skellum is more vivid by far than saying you have slapped a ne'er-do-well

4. Amorously: In an amorous manner; fondly; lovingly.-- a sensational "scene" played out before a house of loafers, and now the babel of thousand-tongued gossip, linking her name Amorously (so she suspected) with the red-painted ne'er-do-well.

5. In Crank, Ellen Hopkins chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between Kristina, a character based on her own daughter, and the "monster," the highly addictive drug crystal meth, or "Crank."Kristina is introduced to the drug while visiting her largely absent and ne'er-do-well father