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good-for-nothing

noun as in lazy, unreliable person

adjective as in useless, worthless

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“This is an excuse for good-for-nothing children. Only by adapting to society can you become a person of real value,” another wrote.

Yet later this year up to 40 healthy Australian volunteers may begin receiving infusions of the supposedly good-for-nothing molecule.

“Good-for-nothing! You don’t have anything to do but to kill people. We’ll kill you one after another.”

Seven rubbed the back of her head and silently cursed her awful luck and that good-for-nothing hexed tree.

“Have a seat. You look like the zopilotes, those nasty good-for-nothing vultures, beat you up and plucked every feather off your pretty wings.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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