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said our goodbyes and went on our way.<br />

good-for-nothing<br />

adj. 1 worthless, useless: 'You are asking too much for that<br />

good-for-nothing old lamp', Aladdin told the pedlar.<br />

--n. 2 ne'er-do-well, wastrel, waster, idler, loafer, layabout,<br />

lazybones, slugabed, sluggard, black sheep, Colloq US gold<br />

brick, goof-off: Why doesn't that lazy good-for-nothing get a<br />

job?<br />

goodly adj. considerable, sizeable, substantial, ample, great, large,<br />

significant, consequential: The museum attracts a goodly number<br />

of visitors each year.<br />

good-natured<br />

adj. good-humoured, friendly, agreeable, genial, gracious,<br />

good-hearted, pleasant, mellow, easygoing, considerate, nice,<br />

kind, kindly, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, charitable,<br />

tolerant, generous, courteous, cordial, warm, warm-hearted,<br />

amiable, amicable, cooperative: He seems a good-natured fellow,<br />

but not too bright.<br />

goody-goody<br />

adj. smug, sanctimonious, self-righteous, priggish, prim,<br />

holier-than-thou, Pecksniffian, hypocritical: She's one of<br />

those goody-goody people who never do anything wrong.<br />

gooey adj. 1 gluey, sticky, tacky, glutinous, mucilaginous, gummy:<br />

The pudding was accompanied by an unpleasantly gooey sauce. 2<br />

sweet, sugary, saccharine, sentimental, unctuous, cloying,<br />

syrupy, mawkish, maudlin, Colloq mushy, slushy, sloppy: They<br />

like to watch those gooey soap operas.<br />

gore°<br />

goreý<br />

gorge<br />

n. blood, carnage, butchery, slaughter, bloodshed: The current<br />

crop of horror films have too much gore for my taste.<br />

v. pierce, stab, poke, horn, penetrate, puncture, spear, gouge,<br />

spit, stick, impale, disembowel: The matador, severely gored by<br />

the bull, was carried away.<br />

n. 1 ravine, canyon, defile, pass, chasm, fissure, crevasse,<br />

gully or gulley, wadi or wady, gap, Brit gill or ghyll, US and

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