ne'er-do-well

To be sure, the neer-do-well is very lively, very pushing, very enterprising in a tte--tte!

Bill Berry was a town neer-do-well, who more than once had aided Noddy in his schemes to make trouble for the motor boys.

On the other hand, the genuine criminal and also the drunken neer-do-well left no children.

If you dont count yourself of any importance, other people are mighty apt to pass you by as a neer-do-well.

A gambler probably; a neer-do-well certainly; and one to break his mothers heart in the end.