So the kitchener weighed it out to him and the good-for-naught entered the shop, whereupon the man set the food before him and he ate till he had gobbled up the whole and licked the saucers and sat perplexed, knowing not how he should do with the cook concerning the price of that he had eaten, and turning his eyes about upon everything in the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tehran Winter] Reference

He was a typical example of the lovable good-for-naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

"I've been a lazy dog all my life, and a good-for-naught; but I hope I've not sunk to that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Little Peppers Grown Up] Reference

"The lazy loon, the idle good-for-naught, to sit by the fire, and see the cakes burn, and never stir a finger.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls] Reference

He would go home, tell Nancy that he was an unlucky good-for-naught, and ask her if she would try her hand at making him over.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Peabody Pew] Reference

"Up! conduct this good-for-naught to the castle of Go and Return Not, and be careful that you inform my friend of his arrival.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know] Reference

For what do I pay you, and feed you, and house you, good-for-naught, if you are to fail me whenever I need the things you call your brains?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference

Ryan mercifully tries to pacify her, but she finds something new to worry about -- that ol 'good-for-naught, baby-makin', beer-swillin 'Baze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Television Without Pity] Reference

Poor misplaced, belittled Lorenzo de Medici Randall, thought ridiculous and good-for-naught by his associates, because he resembled them in nothing!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm] Reference

A good-for-naught lad may have stolen his nest, or a cat filched his young, or his sons and daughters flown away and left him; but he'll sing, for all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference

One year his neighbors thought to employ his superfluous activity by appointing him tithing-man; and great indeed in this department were his zeal and activity; but it was soon found that the dear man's innocent sincerity of heart made him the prey of every village good-for-naught who chose to take him in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

How little Will Shakespeare's father or his scandalized neighbors could have fancied that the scapegrace good-for-naught who left the town for the town's good would make it immortal; and, coming back to die and lie down forever beside the Avon, would bring a world of pilgrims to a new Mecca, the shrine of the supreme unique poet of all human time?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

"This dame of Lyons, I tell you, is a worthless good-for-naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909] Reference

‘Alas!’ said the young man, ‘her father is a wandering good-for-naught, who has forsaken wife and child, and gone off — who knows where?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference

When thou wert poring over the crabbed text, and pattering Latin by the ell, dost thou not remember a lack-grace good-for-naught, Robert Hilyard, who was always setting the school in an uproar, and was finally outlawed from that boy-world, as he hath been since from the man's world, for inciting the weak to resist the strong? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

I was told he was a good-for-naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6] Reference

They laughed, and called him good-for-naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

You mustn't think me utterly good-for-naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [My day : reminiscences of a long life,] Reference

Where are the good-for-naught wanderbirds flown?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Songs From Vagabondia] Reference

Taugenichts, good-for-naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

"Thou gallowsbird, thou good-for-naught!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Literature and Other Essays] Reference

"Thou art a lazy good-for-naught to talk so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

They laughed and called him good-for-naught. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I] Reference

They laughed and called him good-for-naught.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of a Journalist]

With full voice, good-for-naught, inviting rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

I-- a miserable good-for-naught, and you -- a girl. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life] Reference