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good-for-nothing
adjective
good-for-nothing
a good-for-nothing person is lazy and useless
:
an idle good-for-nothing drunk
—
good-for-nothing
noun
[
countable
]
Ian's a stupid good-for-nothing.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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