no-good

alternative no good

1. derogatorynot comparableHaving no value, use or merit.

   Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking

plural no-goods · alternative no good

1. derogatoryA 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.

   1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1

   Synonyms: good-for-nothing, know-nothing, no-mark, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite