ne'er-do-well vs vulture

ne'er-do-well

noun
  • A person who is up to no good; a rogue. 

  • A person without a means of support; an idle, worthless person; a loafer; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; a good-for-nothing. 

adj
  • Showing the characteristics of a ne'er-do-well: indolent, worthless, or roguish. 

vulture

noun
  • A person who profits from the suffering of others. 

  • Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae. 

verb
  • To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture. 

How often have the words ne'er-do-well and vulture occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )