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"ne'er-do-well" Definitions
  1. an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
  2. worthless; ineffectual; good-for-nothing.

102 Sentences With "ne'er do well"

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Facebook looks like a ne'er do well of a global tech company.
What's a man with few prospects and some ne'er-do-well mates to do?
The prime culprit: Californian ne'er-do-well Lorin Ashton and his Bassnectar bass music.
What Warren G would call a gangsta, Milner would probably call a ne'er-do-well.
In academia, as in all other groups, we range from nerd to ne'er-do-well.
Instead, in the grand tradition of ne'er-do-well namesakes, he brought his sire grief.
In the Henriad, Shakespeare elevated Hal from ne'er-do-well to a paragon of a leader.
It turns out that the imaginary friend is just Wizards ne'er-do-well mascot, G-Wiz.
In a possible nod to Dickens himself, a ne'er-do-well boy is named, simply, Charlie.
The ne'er-do-well brother in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead wore a Metallica shirt.
After all, what's a million bucks to the ne'er-do-well son of a media titan?
For one thing, the lab outside the town still teems with ne'er-do-well doctors and scientists.
The beaten down, ne'er do well, can't do anything right, still use them for my mortgage — Wells Fargo.
Two Vanderpump reactions to James' snowballing cheating scandal cement the Brit as this season's leading ne'er-do-well.
One ne'er-do-well proudly displays a rare hologram of Leia killing Jabba the Hutt with her slave chain.
I had heard Matt described as the ne'er-do-well twin, but Mark told me that was not true.
You don't have to deal with an S.O.'s racist uncle or overbearing mother or ne'er-do-well brother.
If a ne'er-do-well were to break into my home and take it, I would likely replace it.
The Skelos case revealed a beleaguered father's desperate and bumbling attempts to prop up his ne'er-do-well son.
The Hotshots help, though he must contend with a ne'er-do-well (Taylor Kitsch) with his own immaturity issues.
Finney stars as the title character, an 18th century ne'er-do-well with a lust for life (among other things).
He described the company's current offices in the East End of London as in a "ne'er-do-well" kind of building.
This means a ne'er-do-well would have to be pretty close to the butt plug in question to commandeer it.
Like a belt-wielding parent lecturing a ne'er-do-well child, Judge Hanen ticks off a few penalties he might have chosen.
A ne'er-do-well with a quantum computer only has one shot at decoding the message successfully before it degrades beyond recovery.
When she meets another poet, Phillauri (Diljit Dosanjh), a dashing ne'er-do-well, they fall into a love forbidden by Shashi's pious brother.
The details relate to Biden's ne'er-do-well son Hunter, who joined the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma, in 2014.
This bundle of eight courses teaches you how to become a white hat hacker and defend the good guys from ne'er-do-well hackers.
All she finds is Gillian's ne'er-do-well husband, Greg, a drunk Will Forte look-alike who moans about his wife's obsession with Scottish history.
The self-described "ex-junkie semi-intellectual ne'er-do-well" who believes mushrooms "could possibly be alien communication" may not have much of a chance.
Janina Gavankar is stellar as the cynical and dry witted Lola, while Khoi Dao's wavering lilt perfectly encapsulates a bumbling ne'er-do-well in Milo.
He's called in as Gene Simmons, Marky Ramone, and Todd Palin as well as invented characters like Philly Boy Roy, a Philadelphian ne'er do well.
After arguing with his ne'er-do-well brother, Chen sets out on a trek through the countryside seeking his young nephew, who has been sent away.
The enduring image of the typical moonshiner is a poor, illiterate ne'er-do-well who is constantly trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
It occurred to a local reporter that "Notlim" was "Milton" spelled backward, and that the mayor, John Street, had a ne'er-do-well brother named Milton.
As Turk has progressed through Marvel's series, he's gone from a man trafficking humans to more of a... goofy ne'er-do-well, to put it lightly.
They're searching for their ne'er-do-well drunk of a son, Eddie, who, not long after blasting his mother's beloved cat to bits, has gone missing.
When Jack (Gabriel Ebert) — a bar regular of Bianca's and a ne'er-do-well with relationships — takes a shining to Jane, Bianca's cautionary instincts kick in.
The same bug would've let the ne'er-do-well quietly switch off a video's comments, leaving the uploader wondering why the heck things suddenly went silent.
Fugitive: Michael Akerly -- A 61-year-old grandmother is raped by a 37-year-old ne'er-do-well after he lures her to his dungeon-like home.
The sitcom, which begins on Tuesday, is an adaptation of the 1989 John Candy movie about a ne'er-do-well who learns to become a father figure.
The main object of that ambivalence is Rex Walls, a big-talking, big-dreaming ne'er-do-well played with the usual guile and gusto by Woody Harrelson.
In the course of doing so, his children told me, he got into a dispute with a ne'er-do-well grandnephew by the name of Sultan Khan.
Hearing Dolores ask, "Whatever happened to that fearsome ne'er do well," is also the most effective repurposing of the dialogue that was written for the hosts thus far.
In lesser hands, Mickey would be a ne'er-do-well burnout with no redeeming characteristics outside of her superhuman tolerance for whatever chemicals she can funnel into her body.
Mike Epps portrays Buck, a ne'er-do-well who is pressed into service as a weekend babysitter by his brother and sister-in-law (James Lesure and Nia Long).
In the fourth, Stanley ends up a rich man after ejecting both of his ne'er-do-well brothers from the business long before they can cause any serious trouble.
Kyle Chandler and Ben Mendelsohn fester as brothers — one a detective, the other a ne'er-do-well — in an affectionately sprawling clan of inn owners in the Florida Keys.
In "The Judge Hunter," the satire is mild, for this is mostly a melodrama about a ne'er-do-well brother-in-law of the great English diarist Samuel Pepys.
Central to this bleak noir is Leon, a ne'er-do-well bass player who tries not to think about anything because as long as it stays buried, it won't walk.
Born into privilege in Surrey in 1906, Charles James was your standard-issue wealthy ne'er-do-well, except for the fact that he went on to do very well indeed.
If it takes demure crew several hours to pacify a drunkard, it will not take much for a ne'er-do-well to take the weapon from them for his own means.
Ulbricht's tale plays out like a high-tech version of Fargo, in which a ne'er-do-well protagonist makes a series of escalating moral compromises that ultimately lead to his undoing.
Kyle Chandler and Ben Mendelsohn earned Emmy nominations as brothers — one a detective, the other a ne'er-do-well — in an affectionately sprawling clan of inn owners in the Florida Keys.
Mary is assumed to be the Bull's mistress but romantic interest is supplied by his ne'er-do-well son, Johnny (Ray Milland), a sleek twerp introduced wearing an ascot at breakfast.
Chris is either blatantly ignoring Rochelle's existence (racist!) or assuming that her blackness is evidence in and of itself that she's a ne'er do well like her friends (also fucking racist!).
The idea is that whereas a ne'er-do-well might crack your password, that action is futile without access to a piece of hardware you keep close, or a piece of your body.
The ne'er-do-well son of a wealthy provincial bourgeois family, he ducked out of an apprenticeship in law and became a figure of the cafés, known for his conversation and social amiability.
Ernst Toller in "First Reformed" and as the violent ne'er-do-well Lee in the current Broadway production of "True West" — have allowed him to fully graduate from bad boy to bad man.
Britt Lower, as an aspiring actress eyeing Robert, is a hovering romantic presence, while Tom Lipinski, as Robert's ne'er-do-well roommate, a financier with an appetite for pot and porn films, lends humor.
That might be a peculiar addition to most bands' catalogs, but not so much for Murder By Death, who have spun long tales of redemption for their ne'er-do-well protagonists in their albums.
But the Kiplings themselves reluctantly quit Vermont for England in 1896, when a row with Carrie's ne'er-do-well brother became a media scandal (leaving was the most difficult decision of his life, Kipling said).
Mr. McLean is Bob, a depressed ne'er-do-well with a poet's soul (he reads Dostoyevsky to cheer up), and Ms. Hart is Helena, an anxious woman discombobulated by bad relationships and a judgmental family.
Assigned to clean the carpet on a docked yacht, she at first banters with, then alienates, the snotty Mexican playboy Leonardo Montenegro, the ne'er-do-well son of the third richest man in the world.
Second Coming of the KKK illustrates how a ne'er do well Atlanta physician dusted off racist remnants of the post–Civil War Klan aimed at maintaining white supremacy in civic and social life in the South.
Her morose father misplaces his gun; it's found by a neighborhood slacker who gives it to an even more shambolic character, Lee (the filmmaker Larry Fessenden), a 30-ish ne'er-do-well living with his grandmother.
And sometimes the fascination lay in the sheer unlikelihood of such an author existing at all, amid the most inauspicious circumstances: a houseful of children, a ne'er-do-well husband, a spindly desk in a drafty hallway.
After the initial bid is revealed, the ne'er-do-well could contact that bidder and threaten to reveal their own bid—valued just slightly less than the original bid—unless the original bidder pays them a fee.
Joel Kinnaman (lately Rick Flag in "Suicide Squad") plays Elliot Baker, a down-on-his-luck ne'er-do-well seeking to reconnect with his sons, Caleb (Percy Hynes White) and Bradley (Tom Holland, the latest Spider-Man).
Kyle Chandler (an Emmy nominee) and Ben Mendelsohn (a winner) fester as brothers — one a detective, the other a ne'er-do-well — in a sprawling clan of Florida Keys inn owners with dark secrets and buried wounds.
In this peculiar piece of sci-fi sensationalism, Frank Grillo plays Mark, a tough Los Angeles cop, now suspended from the force, whom we first see springing his ne'er-do-well adult son, Trent, from the hoosegow.
She had to compromise by taking money from Frankie, a notorious ne'er-do-well riding a temporary windfall, and now Frankie, in his capacity as producer, has solved her budget crisis by taking Mr. Pipolo's $20,000 cash infusion.
He gave up surfing when he nearly died from a snake bite, after which his father, a ne'er-do-well whom Dud still holds in childlike awe, disappeared at sea in what only Dud believes was an accident.
But perhaps the inspiration for Mr. Garcia's previous affable bums had always been the old Jimmy Buffett: the kind of ne'er do well who grapples with living a life of purpose while not wanting to work very hard.
But the works soon ended up in the hands of his grandson, the 12th Duke of Hamilton, a notorious gambler and ne'er-do-well ("his betting book is usually a sorry sight on settling day," it was often said).
If there is a valuable domain name up for auction and no fees on bidding, a ne'er-do-well could place a series of increasingly high bids on the auctions that they think are related to that domain name.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated in the roles of Austin, a screenwriter, and Lee, his ne'er-do-well brother—a device that could have felt like a gimmick but, instead, enriched the play's exploration of duality.
Additionally, any would-be ne'er-do-well would need to individually tamper with hundreds of events—in houses of worship, high school gymnasia, community centers, and building lobbies across 56,000 square miles—to have a serious chance of undermining the results.
"Fortunately, this made-up currency is cordoned off from the rest of Facebook and backed by a consortium of 27 partners including Facebook, but I think it's helping to change the entire narrative for this ne'er-do-well business," he said.
He never had a protégé, but most certainly some ne'er-do-well, perhaps yet unborn, will one day discover his writings and films and, through them, be admitted next in the chain of devotion to which Ricky dedicated his life.
He followed it with an expansion of "Two Cars, One Night": "Boy," about a Michael Jackson-mad Maori kid called Boy growing up in the East Cape in the 1980s and his ne'er-do-well father, played by Waititi himself.
They have a covered outdoor area where smokers hang, a dance floor serviced by some of the best ne'er-do-well DJs, and bartenders who look like dive bar stereotypes but are actually some of the best mixologists in the city.
Since his introduction in the show as a ward of the Starks — not exactly a prisoner, but certainly not there of his own free will — we've watched him transform from a horny ne'er-do-well to a pitiable shell of a person.
A friend whose thirteen-year-old son is deep down the rabbit hole likened the Fortnite phenomenon to the Pump House Gang, the crew of ne'er-do-well teen surfers in La Jolla whom Tom Wolfe happened upon in the early nineteen-sixties.
These included the type of offence, the months served in prison and the inmate's social type, which—with the delicacy one would expect from an early-twentieth-century social scientist—he split into categories including 'hobo', 'drunkard', 'ne'er do-well', 'farm boy' and 'immigrant'.
Amid a melodramatic plot worthy of Douglas Sirk, Olivia, seeking security, weds Bernard, a lovestruck toady with a savior complex, while Antonio suffers the moods of his wife, Danila, a harpy who has fallen under the spell of his ne'er-do-well Fascist brother.
And the featurists were running out of people to write about — running out of alcoholic actors, ne'er-do-well royals, depressive comedians, jailed rock stars, defecting ballet dancers, reclusive film directors, hysterical fashion models, indigent marquises, adulterous golfers, wife-beating footballers and rapist boxers.
There are, at various points, four potential candidates in play: the handsome tenant farmer Robert Martin (Connor Swindells); the airhead local vicar Philip Elton (Josh O'Connor); the foppish ne'er-do-well Frank Churchill (Callum Turner); and the handsome, levelheaded, sigh-worthy George Knightley (Johnny Flynn).
Their first record was released in 1981 on Midwestern indie label Twin/Tone, and it is 18 songs of breakneck punk that are usually no more than two minutes in length, written about things that were important to ne'er-do-well teenagers in the early 113s.
Born in an unnamed flyover state (as in, superheroes fly over it), Emily is desperate to make a difference in her own way, and Bruce Wayne's ne'er-do-well, amazingly canon cousin Van Wayne (Firefly's Alan Tudyk) has brought her on to whip the company into shape.
Little Joe, a lifelong ne'er-do-well, has technically expired, and an emissary from the Devil, called the Head Man and played with saucy relish by Chuck Cooper, is getting ready to haul him off to hell when God decides to give him a second chance.
It begins with Eleanor (Kristen Bell), an Arizona ne'er-do-well whose blood is 90 percent margarita mix, waking up in what she believes is heaven — but is actually an experimental hell, in which she and her new dead friends are unwittingly assigned to torture one another.
The show tells the story of selfish ne'er-do-well Eleanor (Kristen Bell) who finds herself accidentally placed in what she thinks is heaven after her untimely death and is forced to masquerade as a good person with the help of neurotic moral philosophy professor Chidi (William Jackson Harper).
Eventually, I found myself at a jail in Ukraine talking with Oleg Smorodinov, a former separatist fighter and all-around ne'er-do-well from eastern Ukraine who has admitted to working as an assassin for the Russian intelligence services and whose tale I described in a recent article.
Based on a graphic novel by artist Dave Gibbons and writer Mark Millar (who also wrote Kick-Ass), the film paired a veteran secret agent with ne'er-do-well youth Gary "Eggsy" Unwin (Testament of Youth's Taron Egerton), who has to confront both a flamboyant supervillain and upper-crust British society.
In one of the book's most chilling sections, Goldsmith recalls being 13 and reading in Newsweek that the man he called "Dad" was being described as a "ne'er-do-well union operative" who the F.B.I. claimed drove Hoffa to a house in Detroit where the former union leader was garroted in a basement.
Riverdale is easily pegged as a kids-table version of Twin Peaks; there's a dead young body in a tucked-away hamlet ripe with insular strangeness and strife, secrets sussed out under pink lighting in diner booths, claims about the hair of a ne'er-do-well father going white overnight, and Twin Peaks's own Madchen Amick as Betty's mother.
David Bixenspan, writing for SE Scoops (he is also a contributor at VICE's Motherboard), has been vital to understanding just what the hell is going on, because it's increasingly looking like the collision between a ne'er do well (Carter) and a slightly unhinged former rock god (Corgan) over what amount to scraps of a never-was wrestling company.
Anyone familiar with the doomed fruit seller of Mr. Fassbinder's "The Merchant of Four Seasons," the luckless lottery winner of his "Fox and His Friends," or the Weimar-era ne'er-do-well hero of his "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (with Mr. John as a villain as treacherous as Jochen is good-hearted) is forgiven for expecting the worst.
Conventionally grown food is typically sprayed with nitrogen-based fertilizers, which are not only produced in factories that are powered by fossil fuels, but also produce nitrous oxide, which—in addition to being fun to huff out of whipped cream canisters if you're a ne'er-do-well suburban teenager—is a greenhouse gas about 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
Jane Prescott, a smart and sensible lady's maid in service to the nouveau riche Benchley family, has a front-row seat for the mischief that ensues when pretty, vapid Charlotte Benchley rises above her station and becomes romantically entwined with a rich nitwit ne'er-do-well, Robert Norris Newsome Jr. When Norrie is murdered on the night their engagement is to be announced, Charlotte becomes a suspect and only Jane seems inclined to clear the silly girl's good name.
From kingless bards of yore to Sinatra in his fallow years to "Don't Go Home With Your Heart On"-era Leonard Cohen to poor Deacon Blue dying behind the wheel all the way to The Flaming Stars and Crime And The City Solution and Gallon Drunk and a million other ne'er-do-well lounge rockers with unwieldy band names and even clunkier prospects, the landscape is littered with men and women dressed like noir extras crying their eyes out of at the end of the bar.

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