| What do you expect of that ne'er-do-well relative who's always hitting you up for a loan because he's come up with a sure thing? |
| She looked with disfavor upon the young beaver's suit because he was a harum-scarum and a ne'er-do-well. |
| In case anyone needs reminding what happened, a ne'er-do-well customer of the bank had run out of credit to prop up his ailing business. |
| He takes over a pub from his Aunt Paula after failing at innumerable ne'er-do-well schemes in London. |
| In a nutshell, the ne'er-do-well Phantom wants to incite world war to make a fortune selling modern arms developed by his master scientists. |
| These letters are familiar, occasionally intimate, but on the whole quotidian, recurring to her real estate woes and his ne'er-do-well relations. |
