ろくでなし in Japanese

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rokudenashi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rokudenasi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ろくでなし",
      "roman": "rokudenasi",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "ろくでなし"
      },
      "expansion": "ろくでなし • (rokudenashi) ^(←ろくでなし (rokudenasi)?)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a good-for-nothing, a bum"
      ],
      "id": "en-ろくでなし-ja-noun-E75CRKS3",
      "links": [
        [
          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
        ],
        [
          "bum",
          "bum"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "roman": "rokudemonai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "碌",
              "ろく"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "碌でもない"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ろくでなし"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɾo̞kɯ̟de̞na̠ɕi]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ろくでなし"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rokudenashi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rokudenasi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ろくでなし",
      "roman": "rokudenasi",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "ろくでなし"
      },
      "expansion": "ろくでなし • (rokudenashi) ^(←ろくでなし (rokudenasi)?)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "rokudemonai",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "碌",
          "ろく"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "碌でもない"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese hiragana",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese nouns",
        "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a good-for-nothing, a bum"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
        ],
        [
          "bum",
          "bum"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ろくでなし"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɾo̞kɯ̟de̞na̠ɕi]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ろくでなし"
}

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{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "ろくでなし"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ろくでなし",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "ろくでなし"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ろくでなし",
  "trace": ""
}

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"ろくでなし" meaning in Japanese

Noun