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ne'er-do-well
noun
- an improvident, irresponsible, or lazy person
adjective
- useless; worthless
your ne'er-do-well schemes
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ne'er-do-well1
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Example Sentences
The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
He's a chap named Hyson, the local ne'er-do-well, who was almost starving when Mr. Glenthorpe came to the district.
A gambler probably; a ne'er-do-well certainly; and one to break his mother's heart in the end.
Here was a means of at once swelling the man-power of his country and ridding himself of a pestilent ne'er-do-well.
Some of his neighbors pity him as a ne'er-do-well, while others devoutly attribute to him a sort of superhuman faculty.
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