good-for-nothing
/ɡʊdfəˈnʌθɪŋ
/adjective
(Of a person) lazy and feckless: his good-for-nothing son...
- Hunter, you will die before tonight, you useless, good-for-nothing idiot.
- Finally, she saw what she had been hoping for: the worn out brake pads that her lazy, good-for-nothing father hadn't replaced.
- I knew what the lady had said was just a lie cooked up by my lazy, good-for-nothing parents to get me to come home.
Synonyms
useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, ne'er-do-well;
lazy, idle, slothful, indolent, shiftless, spiritless, apathetic, aimless, unambitious, unenterprising
informal no-good, no-account, lousy
noun
A lazy, feckless 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?...
- Novelists are a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings, obviously.
- No, fancy stuff like that was for the layabouts, the good-for-nothings, the dreamers, those who didn't have a clue as to what was what.
Synonyms
ne'er-do-well, layabout, do-nothing, idler, loafer, slob, lounger, sluggard, laggard, slugabed, malingerer, shirker
informal skiver, waster, slacker, lazybones, lead-swinger, couch potato
British informal scrimshanker
archaic wastrel
French archaic fainéant
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- motion discomfort bag
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