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no-account

[noh-uh-kount] / ˈnoʊ əˌkaʊnt /
ADJECTIVE
worthless
Synonyms
STRONG
barren base empty good-for-nothing inferior nothing poor trifling waste
WEAK
abandoned abject bogus cheap contemptible counterproductive despicable drossy futile ignoble inconsequential ineffective ineffectual insignificant inutile meaningless mediocre miserable no-good nugatory paltry pointless profitless sterile trashy trivial unavailing unessential unimportant unproductive unprofitable unusable useless valueless wretched
Antonyms
STRONG
fertile filled full productive sufficient superior useful

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

“You must have been otherwise engaged. But who would expect any different from a no-account sheriff of a no-account town?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.