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 or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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