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Antonyms 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

    Antonyms:
    valuable

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

  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"

    Antonyms:
    valuable

    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

How to use good-for-nothing in a sentence?

  1. John Quincy Adams:

    Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Proverb:

    If the servant grows rich and the master poor, they are both good for nothing.

  5. Samuel Johnson:

    A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

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