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no-account
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun no-account has 1 sense
- no-account(n = noun.person) goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well - an idle worthless person; Array is a kind of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
Adjective no-account has 1 sense
- no-account(s = adj.all) good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-count, no-good, sorry - without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"
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