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said our goodbyes and went on our way.
good-for-nothing
adj. 1 worthless, useless: 'You are asking too much for that
good-for-nothing old lamp', Aladdin told the pedlar.
--n. 2 ne'er-do-well, wastrel, waster, idler, loafer, layabout,
lazybones, slugabed, sluggard, black sheep, Colloq US gold
brick, goof-off: Why doesn't that lazy good-for-nothing get a
job?
goodly adj. considerable, sizeable, substantial, ample, great, large,
significant, consequential: The museum attracts a goodly number
of visitors each year.
good-natured
adj. good-humoured, friendly, agreeable, genial, gracious,
good-hearted, pleasant, mellow, easygoing, considerate, nice,
kind, kindly, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, charitable,
tolerant, generous, courteous, cordial, warm, warm-hearted,
amiable, amicable, cooperative: He seems a good-natured fellow,
but not too bright.
goody-goody
adj. smug, sanctimonious, self-righteous, priggish, prim,
holier-than-thou, Pecksniffian, hypocritical: She's one of
those goody-goody people who never do anything wrong.
gooey adj. 1 gluey, sticky, tacky, glutinous, mucilaginous, gummy:
The pudding was accompanied by an unpleasantly gooey sauce. 2
sweet, sugary, saccharine, sentimental, unctuous, cloying,
syrupy, mawkish, maudlin, Colloq mushy, slushy, sloppy: They
like to watch those gooey soap operas.
gore° n. blood, carnage, butchery, slaughter, bloodshed: The current
crop of horror films have too much gore for my taste.
goreý v. pierce, stab, poke, horn, penetrate, puncture, spear, gouge,
spit, stick, impale, disembowel: The matador, severely gored by
the bull, was carried away.
gorge n. 1 ravine, canyon, defile, pass, chasm, fissure, crevasse,
gully or gulley, wadi or wady, gap, Brit gill or ghyll, US and