The Collaborative International Dictionary
no-good \no-good\ adj. without merit; useless; as, the car was a no-good piece of junk.
Syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, sorry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1908, from phrase no good "good for nothing." As a noun, first recorded 1924; variant no-goodnik (see -nik) first attested 1960.
Wiktionary
a. Having no value, use or merit alt. Having no value, use or merit n. A worthless or useless person
WordNet
adj. without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, sorry]
returned for lack of funds; "a rubber check"; "a no-good check" [syn: rubber]
Usage examples of "no-good".
Jones, who we yesterday characterized as a no-good, racist, homophobe, sexist bigot, is in fact none of these things.
The doc and nurse both had blood on them, a no-good way to be working in this day of AIDS, Hepatitis, Avian Pneumonitis and God knows what else the terrorists might be cooking up.
My fellow passengers declared Maryland a no-good Secesh state, whose citizens deserved no better than the horsewhip or the noose.
Finest, but now all of a sudden they were spoiled brats, Spock-raised squallers, no-good ingrates.
I am a free-born man, high in the councils of my nation, and anyone who calls me a stinkard is a rotten, no-good, foul-mouthed liar!
Just as a sandspur jabbing in your foot can make walking every bit as painful as a broken bone, you can make life difficult for criminals and mean-minded no-goods.
No, he had started his walk somewhere else, he could not remember where, but it was ten miles away, no, twenty-five miles away, some town, and the people in that town were no-good jackass asswipes.
And you, you no-good chiseller, are supposed to be out there, listening for the first sign of them.
A bunch of no-good tramps, half-baked defeatists playing cribbage for matches!
They don't trust strangers, and even though Morton is a low-down, no-good son of a bitch, he's still a Colton, so they trust him to do this job, which he does very well, by the way.
The serving lad, down at the Disappointed Sheep Tavern, had been making eyes at her last night, while I had only attracted the attentions of a smelly, no-good, toothless goat herder.
It shook me to find that to practically everyone he was still juvenile delinquent, lazy trash, no-good off-scouring, potential criminal, burden.
He’s alive, that amazing no-good, this minute, living his crazy life, double-crossing and flimf lamming for the pure pleasure of it, for the game, world without end.
Erna Pokriefke, her legs firmly planted in our kitchen, reviled him in an amplified voice, calling him a no-good dumbhead.
She doesn't have to be a no-good drug-addict whore out of the gutter.