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good-for-nothing
1. One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was in the mirror, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and really ugly
2. He told the thief, who listened with fascination and silent amusement, that he had been very close to putting the girl in her place after she confronted him about the treatment of what he called “the good-for-nothing Gray Skins”, but was stopped when “Bleeding Heart Brunwulf” needlessly threw his weight around and intervened
3. "Look at the good-for-nothing!" cried the old woman, full of wrath at the sight of the shoeless boy
4. “I can see her, the pallid, good-for-nothing codfish!”
5. During the afternoon, while the children were having their nap, Aureliano Segundo sat on the porch and Fernanda pursued him even there, provoking him, tormenting him, hovering about him with her implacable horsefly buzzing, saying that, of course, while there was nothing to eat except stones, her husband was sitting there like a sultan of Persia, watching it rain, because that was all he was, a slob, a sponge, a good-for-nothing, softer than cotton batting, used to living off women and convinced that he had married Jonah’s wife, who was so content with the story of the whale
6. “Matthews wouldn’t send a good-for-nothing out here to try and trap us
7. Heckler was the most duplicitous, immoral, back-handed, yellow-toothed, good-for-nothing, unscrupulous…
8. He wanted to prove to everyone that he wasn’t just a good-for-nothing crybaby; that it was not a mistake for him to be born
9. God forgive me, his mother was all right but he's a good-for-nothing wastrel
10. I hate your lazy, good-for-nothing guts
11. A mark of pride that their filthy good-for-nothing families had not done a single decent days work for hundreds, nay thousands of years…
12. If so, and if that be thy pleasure, I give it to thee now, once and for all, and much good may it do thee, for so long as I see myself rid of such a good-for-nothing squire I'll be glad to be left a pauper without a rap
13. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfil our duties as citizens and fathers of families; but I don't need to go to church to kiss silver plates, and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who live better than we do
14. "That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if they did or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding and my Dapple's for that is the great point and what is most to the purpose; and when the hour comes let us go the rounds, for it is my intention to purge this island of all manner of uncleanness and of all idle good-for-nothing vagabonds; for I would have you know that lazy idlers are the same thing in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the industrious bees make
15. good-for-nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might turn up
16. He is to be married very soon--a good-for-nothing fellow! I have no patience with him
17. And therefore our politic Asclepius may be supposed to have exhibited the power of his art only to persons who, being generally of healthy constitution and habits of life, had a definite ailment; such as these he cured by purges and operations, and bade them live as usual, herein consulting the interests of the State; but bodies which disease had penetrated through and through he would not have attempted to cure by gradual processes of evacuation and infusion: he did not want to lengthen out good-for-nothing lives, or to have weak fathers begetting weaker sons; --if a man was not able to live in the ordinary way he had no business to cure him; for such a cure would have been of no use either to himself, or to the State
18. Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not--the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer's art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling
19. Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?
20. The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him; although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp; they may be justly compared to the mutinous sailors, and the true helmsmen to those who are called by them good-for-nothings and star-gazers
21. "It serves me right! Decidedly, it serves me right! I was determined to be a vagabond and a good-for-nothing
22. I suppose it makes sense – for one of the world’s leading software businesses to steal and exploit his technology was obviously far more serious than if some good-for-nothing, unprincipled shit of a student had done the same
23. I shouldn’t have given the old do-less, good-for-nothing!” Swiftly Melanie dismissed the playmate of her childhood and scoundrel shelter
24. "What does the good-for-nothing thing want in the parlor?" said they; and they took away her fine clothes, and gave her an old frock to put on, and laughed at her and turned her into the kitchen
25. *[2] ‘It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow of whom you have made a friend,
26. ‘You shameless good-for-nothing!’ said she
27. ‘What are you staring at, you good-for-nothing?
28. ‘Oh, but he was a regular good-for-nothing,’ said Tikhon
29. What! because it would have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and all that for the sake of an old wretch of an applethief who, most assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, and
30. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have seized my wife's waist!"—"I, sir? Search me!"
31. Gillenormand never addressed this child except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! rascal, scoundrel, come here!—Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see you, you good-for-nothing!" etc
32. For four years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that if Marius made him wait much longer—It was not death that was insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see Marius again
33. He is to be married very soon—a good-for-nothing fellow! I have no patience with him
34. He went over to the usurper, not as an ignorant believer, but as a depraved and dangerous good-for-nothing
35. He passed over to the usurper, not as an ignorant and credulous man, but as a depraved and dangerous good-for-nothing
36. He reached this nonsense because of the scientific method; the limiting of the field of research, the non-recognition of anything else than sensation, is very good and profitable for the practical ends of the science of experimental psychology, but it is good-for-nothing as far as a living universal point of view is concerned
37. I, fallen as I was, was glad that I had acted as I ought, and that I, a good-for-nothing, had gone out of their lives, so as not to stand in the way of people who were good and who had life before them
38. Good-for-nothing rubbish! The soul's the chief thing!" repeated he
39. But chiefly they pass their best years in losing the habit of life, that is, of labour, and accustom themselves to consider their own position justified, and thus become, physically, good-for-nothing parasites, and, mentally, dislocate their brains and lose all power of thought-production
40. We have learned everything very well, but the pity of it is that nobody but ourselves understands it, and that everybody else considers it good-for-nothing nonsense
41. And therefore I say, that for the man of our circle, in addition to not lying to himself or to others, repentance is also necessary, and that he should scrape from himself that pride which has sprung up in us, in our culture, in our refinements, in our talents; and that he should confess that he is not a benefactor of the people and a distinguished man, who does not refuse to share with the people his useful acquirements, but that he should confess himself to be a thoroughly guilty, corrupt, and good-for-nothing man, who desires to reform himself and not to behave benevolently towards the people, but simply to cease wounding and insulting them
42. “You shameless good-for-nothing!” said she
43. But he’s a good-for-nothing lad! You know that sort of tradesman’s son, a dandy and lady-killer
44. “What are you staring at, you good-for-nothing?