Definition of "good-for-nothingness" [good-for-nothingness]

• Idle shiftlessness; uselessness. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness, and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?"
• "Ireland to-day must be, therefore, accounted for on some other theory than the inherent good-for-nothingness of his nature."
• "Wholesaling, laziness, lack of system, hurry, are the cause of good-for-nothingness of body and mind."