good-for-nothing

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Then my father made his appearance; he had been busy in the mill since daybreak, and his nightcap was all awry as he said to me— You Good-for-nothing!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

Translated by Alfred Baskerville   From the Life of a Good-for-nothing.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

In my own heart I called myself every bad name I could think of: "Horse, Beast, Ox, Cat, Good-for-nothing, Long-tongue."

From Jewish Children by Berman, Hannah

Next, a News-paper proclaims the Goods of Lady Good-for-nothing lately deceased, to be sold, or rather given away to such as shall take the trouble to fetch them.

From The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, fl. 1732

Good-for-nothing monstrosities, failures of purpose rather than purposeless, indeed, sometimes occur; but these are just as anomalous and unlikely upon Darwin's theory as upon any other.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa