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What is "do-nothing"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
do-nothing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The voters are fed up with this do-nothing Congress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mixture of muddle-headedness and corruption offers an excuse for do-nothing politics in the west.
▪ Harriman, however, rejected the do-nothing policy.
▪ The days of do-nothing government are numbered.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
do-nothing

do-nothing \do-nothing\ n. person who does no work.

Syn: idler, loafer, layabout, bum, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing.

do-nothing

do-nothing \do"-noth`ing\, a. Doing nothing; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; idle; lazy; -- of people; as, a do-nothing policy.

Syn: bone-idle, bone-lazy, faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, shiftless, slothful, workshy, work-shy.

Wiktionary
do-nothing

n. A lazy person.

WordNet
do-nothing

  1. adj. characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility; "a do-nothing government" [syn: do-nothing(a)]

  2. n. person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler, loafer, layabout, bum]

Usage examples of "do-nothing".

And it is not for you to repine when he has money and buys himself another to bring her to his house, for all men are so, and would my old do-nothing also, except the poor wretch has never had enough silver in his life to feed himself even.

Bielenda was a do-nothing blowhard who was just following the money, going with the established wrecks, doing nothing new.

And you're yanking me out of the saddle, all at the behest of some bunch of do-nothing jerk-offs in Washington who couldn't find their asses with both hands—"