no-account
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Adjective
no-account (comparative more no-account, superlative most no-account)
- (US, British, colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.
- 1898, Joel Chandler Harris, Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War, page 48:
- "There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off."
- 2001, Charles De Lint, The Onion Girl, page 274:
- "Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news," he says.
What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on.
- 2004, John Horne Burns, Paul Fussell, The Gallery, page 124:
- You see, corporal, the human race is getting worse all the time. Each year we know less than we did in the preceding. We're more no-account now than we were five hundred years ago.
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