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ne'er-do-well
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The ne'er-do-well blew, like seed before the wind, to distant places, but mankind at large stayed at home.
He's a chap named Hyson, the local ne'er-do-well, who was almost starving when Mr. Glenthorpe came to the district.
A gambler probably; a ne'er-do-well certainly; and one to break his mother's heart in the end.
Here was a means of at once swelling the man-power of his country and ridding himself of a pestilent ne'er-do-well.
Some of his neighbors pity him as a ne'er-do-well, while others devoutly attribute to him a sort of superhuman faculty.
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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ne'er-do-well, such as: idler, incompetent, loafer, loser, wastrel, and shiftless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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