no-account
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of no-account
An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
Example Sentences
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She’d written hundreds of scripts by the time she published this still-useful how-to book, allegedly with her no-account husband.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Jeff Bridges was probably the only possible casting as the no-account “Rooster” Cogburn, with Hailee Steinfeld as his employer, the 14-year-old Mattie Ross.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018
By early 2014, IS - which he and other fighters once mocked as a no-account outfit with paltry numbers - had driven rebel factions out of Raqqa.
From BBC ● May 3, 2018
If you believe the lore, Nashville hot chicken was basically a crime of passion, created as a blistering rebuke to a no-account Romeo who couldn’t keep his hands off other women.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2015
Why does he put up with this no-account that’s runnin’ the Army of the Potomac?
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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