good-for-nothing

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Good-for-nothing was written in every line of the shiftless, shambling figure, and pictured in every rag of the fluttering raiment, and yet—the fellow really was hungry,—and again came the thought of that fifteen cents.

From That Printer of Udell's by Wright, Harold Bell

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

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

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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various

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