no-count
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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When I say ‘we,’ I mean every Cleveland no-count between the ages of 14 and 24.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2018
He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself."
From Time Magazine Archive
Health officers refused to let the poison be poured into an abandoned well or buried in "some no-count piece of land."
From Time Magazine Archive
At last count, the Chronicle was carrying no fewer than 53 columnists, ranging downward from Walter Lippmann to Count Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Why you want to be a no-count farmer?” he thundered.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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