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Synonyms for no-good
ˈnoʊˈgʊd; ˈnoʊˌgʊdno-good

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  1. 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"

    Synonyms:
    grim, dreary, regretful, gloomy, good-for-nothing, dingy, drear, bad, good-for-naught, pitiful, rubber, blue, lamentable, deplorable, dark, dismal, drab, meritless, no-account, no-count, distressing, sorry, sad, disconsolate

    Antonyms:
    valuable, good

  2. rubber, no-goodadjective

    returned for lack of funds

    "a rubber check"; "a no-good check"

    Synonyms:
    meritless, sorry, no-count, rubber, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, no-account

    Antonyms:
    valuable, good

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  1. List of paraphrases for "no-good":

    tosser, good-for-nothing, cursed, accursed

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#618blue
#841bad
#1640dark
#2263sorry
#4036rubber
#5071sad
#14856grim
#17926cursed
#28539dismal
#28701gloomy
#37338dreary
#40996pitiful
#42423distressing
#43052drab
#55032deplorable
#58318dingy
#69165accursed
#95216lamentable
#128663tosser
#134051regretful
#167212disconsolate
#169244drear
#177601meritless

How to use no-good in a sentence?

  1. Toni Morrison:

    All of my life is doing something for somebody else, whether I'm being a good daughter, a good mother, a good wife, a good lover, a good teacher -- and that's all that. The only thing I do for me is writing. That's really the real free place where I don't have to answer.

  2. William Lyon Phelps:

    Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world.

  3. Niccolò Machiavelli:

    The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

  4. Alan Cumming:

    The Good Wife '' star’s The Good Wife '' star ; The Good Wife '' star drives a motorbike ; [ The Good Wife '' star’s ] gay … The Good Wife '' star’s kind of a little bit on the spectrum. The Good Wife '' star’s The Good Wife '' star. There’s a lot going on.

  5. Abhi Raynott:

    When you realize needing nothing attracts everything. You don't have to be perfect. You just need to be good. Good for yourself. Good for others. Well, for life. Do good and good will come to you. See the good and the good we will be in everything you look at. Beauty is in the magic of the soul, in the purity and sincerity of the heart. Everything else is an illusion.


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