no-good

See also: no good

English

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Adjective

no-good (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory) Having no value, use or merit.

Noun

no-good (plural no-goods)

  1. (derogatory) A worthless or useless person.
    • 1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1:
      The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.

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