Synonyms for do-nothing
dudo-noth·ing

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1. idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bumadjective

   person who does no work

   "a lazy bum"

   Synonyms:
   fanny, tail, seat, crumb, butt, hobo, skunk, rear end, scum bag, can, nates, bottom, git, layabout, fundament, stinker, posterior, buttocks, puke, stern, stinkpot, backside, bum, dirty dog, idler, buns, hindquarters, tail end, derriere, tooshie, so-and-so, hind end, rotter, rump, lowlife, keister, tramp, ass, prat, arse, rear, tush, loafer, rat, behind

   Antonyms:
   responsible

2. do-nothing(a)adjective

   characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility

   "a do-nothing government"

   Antonyms:
   responsible

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1. do-nothingadjective

   Synonyms:
   inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful

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1. Van Gundy:

   Running back on defense has nothing to do with youth and inexperience. Getting down and competing defensively has nothing to do with youth and inexperience. Blocking people out, nothing to do with youth and inexperience. Getting beaten on a cut, nothing to do with youth and inexperience, i don't think, tonight, our lack of experience had anything to do with the result. Nothing.

2. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

3. Reinhold Niebuhr:

   Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

4. John Stuart Mill:

   War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

5. Janet Mondragon of Middletown:

   We have nothing, absolutely nothing, what can I tell you? We are staying in a hotel in Santa Rosa, but we're going to have to start life over. There is nothing, absolutely nothing.