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No-account   /noʊ-əkˈaʊnt/   Listen
No-account

adjective
1.
Without merit.  Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-count, no-good, sorry.  "A sorry excuse" , "A lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" , "The car was a no-good piece of junk"






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"No-account" Quotes from Famous Books



... wasn't anything so specially interesting," protested the Traveling Salesman diffidently. "We simply got jollying a bit in the first place about the amount of perfectly senseless, no-account truck that'll collect in a fellow's pockets; and then some sort of a scorched piece of paper he had, or something, got him telling me about a nasty, sizzling close call he had to-day with a live wire; ...
— The Indiscreet Letter • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... event with the Happy Family, who used sometimes to fix the date of an incident by saying, "It was right after that time Weary got mad, a year ago last fall," or something of the sort. He grinned himself, shamefacedly, and told them that they were a bunch of no-account cusses, anyway, and he'd just about as soon herd sheep himself as to have to run with such an outfit; which swept his anger from him and left him his usual self, with but the addition of a purpose from which nothing could stay ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower

... he's a boy; young Will Barnes," amended the coroner. "Most people think he's just a lazy, no-account young feller, but I've always said he was growin'. Goes fishin' a good deal, of course, but—— There he goes, now!" He ran to the door, through the glass of which he had seen a tall, lanky youth ...
— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele



Words linked to "No-account" :   bum, worthless, layabout, idler, loafer, do-nothing



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