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  1. good for nothingadjective

    useless; worthless

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of good for nothing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of good for nothing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of good for nothing in a Sentence

  1. Ibn-e-Safi:

    Why is it that an ordinary clerk has to pass the examination for clerkship, a police constable has to go through training as a recruit before he could be commissioned and on the other hand vegetable-selling middlemen, good-for-nothing fuedals and imbecile merchants go sit in the Assemblies directly and start legisltating and some even become members of the cabinet

  2. Laertius Diogenes:

    He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

  3. R. D. Hitchcock:

    The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.

  4. Atul Kothari:

    The lessons from today's history books are that Indians are nothing and good for nothing, The truth is that historically we have been a far superior race.

  5. Lakshheish M Patel:

    SBI Cap stock brokerage firm continues to make its trading platform pages unresponsive every day and loot its clients without any fear of any regularity authority like SEBI which is good for nothing


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