How to Use no-good in a Sentence

no-good

noun
  • Archie has a no-good, very-bad day, and Dylan goes to bat for her students.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This is going to be a horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad day.
    — Nathan Rott, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The ordeal at Keystone gave me an up-close view of the no-good, very bad 2025-26 ski season.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This has been a terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad opening to the ski season here in Colorado, due to the balmy conditions and lack of snowfall.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 2 Dec. 2025
  • I'mPhaedra Trethan, the terrible no-good baseball fan who was too tired to stay awake for all 18 innings of Game 3 of the World Series.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That guy – the guy on whom the Bruins pinned the interim tag before Game 4 – was the breath of fresh air helping disguise the stench of an otherwise terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad season.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Released in 1958, Attack told of a wealthy heiress, fresh from a stint at a mental institution, who is turned into a giantess and then deals with her philandering husband and his no-good, money-grubbing floozy.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And that’s not including the likes of Daniel Mays, Jonathan Pryce, and, as no-good property developer Ian Ventham, David Tennant.
    — James Medd, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And with nary a golfer from the upstart tour within eight strokes of Round 2 leader Wyndham Clark at 7 under par, LIV’s no-good, very bad 2026 continued Friday.
    — Matt Schubert, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • With Ethan Hawke's newbie simmering against the go-for-broke finesse of Denzel Washington's very bad, no-good officer, Training Day revels in tension, with washes of blue and green augmenting scenes where Hawke is bullied into getting high.
    — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026

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