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ne'er-do-well

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ne'er-do-well  (nârd-wl)
n.
An idle, irresponsible person.
ne'er-do-well adj.
ne'er-do-well
Noun
an irresponsible or lazy person
Adjective
useless; worthless: his ne'er-do-well brother
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Noun1.ne'er-do-well - an idle worthless person
good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, no-account, goldbrick
do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
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"It means, to my thinking," said Levin, who was beginning to get warm, "that among eighty millions of people there can always be found not hundreds, as now, but tens of thousands of people who have lost caste, ne'er-do-wells, who are always ready to go anywhere--to Pogatchev's bands, to Khiva, to Serbia.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Otherwise she must have believed them the most hopeless assortment of reprobates and ne'er-do-wells in the world, with veritable slaves and martyrs for wives.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Her ne'er-do-well husband, deserting her, made a strike in the Nevada goldfields, and returned to her a many-times millionaire.
The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context
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