no-account

Definitions

1. 1

   Of no value or merit

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

   • "There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off."
   • "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.
   • 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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