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good-for-nothings

good-for-nothings is the plural of good-for-nothing.

Meaning of good-for-nothing

Noun

good-for-nothing (plural good-for-nothings)

  1. A person of little worth or usefulness.
    • Americans might have taken some comfort from the fact that these critics also expressed similar misgivings about Rhodes Scholars coming from elsewhere. Isis, a student publication, lampooned Australians as good-for-nothings who badly needed education.2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 23

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Questions about good-for-nothings

What is good-for-nothings the plural of?
Good-for-nothings is the plural of good-for-nothing.

Words near good-for-nothings in the dictionary

  1. good-for-naught
  2. good-for-naughts
  3. good-for-nothing
  4. good-for-nothingest
  5. good-for-nothingness
  6. good-for-nothings
  7. good-good
  8. good-hearted
  9. good-heartedly
  10. good-heartedness
  11. Good-Henry

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