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ne'er-do-well

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  1. goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naughtnoun

    an idle worthless person

    Synonyms:
    good-for-naught, no-account, goldbrick, good-for-nothing, goof-off

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  1. John McDonnell:

    He may well be in contempt of parliament or the courts themselves because he's clearly trying to undermine the first letter, and not signing the letter, he's behaving a bit like a spoiled brat, parliament made a decision, he should abide by it.

  2. Venus Williams:

    Congratulations Garbine for making the final, i know you had a tough match yesterday - it's not easy when you don't play your best, and I probably didn't have a chance if you felt well !

  3. A.A. Milne:

    If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  4. Joe Taravella:

    You make that distinction with kids as well because then we start getting into prejudices and religions and cultures and there's good and bad everywhere, we want to distinguish and help kids have an understanding of that at an early age.

  5. Sean Lynch:

    What has occurred the past couple of days is that the market has focused back on what are still good fundamentals for equities. There is a Fed that is going to be patient and pretty transparent on when they are going to raise rates and an economy that is doing pretty well, the other factor that is getting investors excited is the fact the ECB may come in a couple of weeks and do a more robust action around their quantitative easing program.


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