NOUN
- an idle worthless person
ADJECTIVE
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without merit; of little or no value or use
a sorry excuse
the car was a no-good piece of junk
a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
a sorry horse
How To Use no-account In A Sentence
- They'll ask me what in the world I'm doing ride with a no-account cowboy and why didn't I wait for Brad.
- He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
- The foolish child married some no-account and got herself pregnant.
- That's because the no-account former Mayor Adrian Fenty, who Barry said was the 'most unaccountable mayor' he'd ever seen, is no longer in power. DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 21, 2011
- But what else could I expect from a bunch of low-rent, no-account hoodlums like you?
- West Topsham is a small no-account town just a few miles from the Northeast Kingdom.
- The hooks are less obvious, and the tales of castaways and hopeless no-accounts not nearly as prevalent.
- When the no-account Mr. Skeen learned he had a child coming, he up and ran off to Cleveland with barely a goodbye, she said. The curious case of the corpse in the car trunk
- As film historian Thomas Doherty notes, the ‘slanderous central conceit’ of High Noon was that ‘the Old West was packed with no-account yellow-bellies.’
- She cried for one of his no-account hoodlum friends, one whom she'd barely known at all.