Synonyms for good-for-nothing
ˈgʊd fərˈnʌθ ɪŋ, -ˌnʌθ-good-for-noth·ing

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1. good-for-nothingnoun

   Synonyms:
   neer-do-well

2. good-for-nothingnoun

   A person of little worth or usefulness.

   Synonyms:
   neer-do-well

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

   an idle worthless person

   Synonyms:
   good-for-naught, no-account, goldbrick, ne'er-do-well, goof-off

   Antonyms:
   valuable

2. good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorryadjective

   without merit

   "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"

   Synonyms:
   grim, dreary, regretful, gloomy, dingy, drear, bad, good-for-naught, pitiful, rubber, blue, lamentable, deplorable, dark, dismal, drab, meritless, no-account, no-count, distressing, no-good, sorry, sad, disconsolate

   Antonyms:
   valuable

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1. List of paraphrases for "good-for-nothing":

   tosser, no-good, worthless, useless

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1. Atul Kothari:

   The lessons from today's history books are that Indians are nothing and good for nothing, The truth is that historically we have been a far superior race.

2. Anton Zeilinger:

   With my first experiments I was sometimes asked by the press what they were good for, and I said with pride: ‘It’s good for nothing. I’m doing this purely out of curiosity.’.

3. Ibn-e-Safi:

   Why is it that an ordinary clerk has to pass the examination for clerkship, a police constable has to go through training as a recruit before he could be commissioned and on the other hand vegetable-selling middlemen, good-for-nothing fuedals and imbecile merchants go sit in the Assemblies directly and start legisltating and some even become members of the cabinet

4. R. D. Hitchcock:

   The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.

5. Betsy Alfaro:

   These women are forced into believing that they are worthless, good for nothing more than to sell their bodies, our aim is to show them a way out by first treating them as friends, rather than judging them as criminals.