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How to use ne'er-do-well in a sentence

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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.
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?
I despair and I'm disgusted at the ne'er-do-well southern makeshift politicians.
However the meeting was arranged, why does the President of Taiwan want a meeting with the president's ne'er-do-well brother?
He takes over a pub from his Aunt Paula after failing at innumerable ne'er-do-well schemes in London.
There's the super-talented, ne'er-do-well point guard, who is signed to a long-term deal.
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 roared and turned purple on hearing that his multimillionaire brother had died and left his entire estate to Biff, his ne'er-do-well godson.
Sure enough, the surveillance set-up soon captured the toff ne'er-do-well rifling Allen's wallet.
It was there that Lekha met Govind the writer's ne'er-do-well brother-in-law.
Another story today contradicts the theory that these scofflaws are a bunch of ne'er-do-well capitalists, or at least most of them.
She looked with disfavor upon the young beaver's suit because he was a harum-scarum and a ne'er-do-well.
These letters are familiar, occasionally intimate, but on the whole quotidian, recurring to her real estate woes and his ne'er-do-well relations.
Due to my poor performance as a husband, father, and provider, I can claim the role of knave, or general ne'er-do-well.
Except that ne'er-do-well Booth, obviously, who is no better than Stanford.
Here, a woman is talking on the phone to her mother about her sponging, unfaithful boyfriend, justifying all his ne'er-do-well exploits out of love and possibly denial.
His trip becomes a living nightmare when he stops off en route to pick up his ne'er-do-well brother Fuller, who persuades him to play a joke on a lonely trucker.
But ne'er-do-well heirs crash and burn all the time proving that access to money and power does not preordain success.
And you're a ne'er-do-well and a swindler and a liar!
Mr. Hais, 42, still evokes his youthful days as a ne'er-do-well.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He's a chap named hyson, the local ne'er-do-well, who was almost starving when Mr. Glenthorpe came to the district.
These thieving propensities made her perfect as a ne'er-do-well.
Theodorite was the grown-up son of the house, and a ne'er-do-well.
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