Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worthless; good-for-nothing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worthless.
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- adjective US, colloquial Of no
value ormerit ;good-for-nothing ; of noaccount .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without merit
- noun an idle worthless person
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Examples
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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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 Paul Duggan 2010
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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 Mike DeBonis 2011
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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When the Jets finally won -- thanks to a goal line pass intereference call against Denver -- I could barely remember why I had ever liked the no-run, no-account Donkeys, who plunged to 2-4.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: A Jet All the Way Michael Conniff 2010
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