no-good

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no-good

adjective no good

  1. derogatory, not comparable Having no value, use or merit.

    Similar: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish

noun no-goods · no good

  1. derogatory A worthless or useless person. The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.

    Similar: good-for-nothing, know-nothing, no-mark, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain

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@misc{no_good_2026,
  title = {no-good},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/no-good},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}