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Antonyms for no-account


Grammar : Adj
Spell : noh-uh-kount
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnoʊ əˌkaʊnt



Definition of no-account

Origin :
  • "worthless," 1845, American English, literally "of no account" (see account (n.)). The phrase of non acompte "of no value or importance" is from late 14c. Contracted form no'count is attested from 1853.
  • adj worthless
Example sentences :
  • "You'd better stay over there, you no-account Lothario," Hetty growled.
  • Extract from : « Make Mine Homogenized » by Rick Raphael
  • When he was a boy, he seemed to be a no-account sort of a duck, some like you.
  • Extract from : « Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy » by George W. Peck
  • Can't a low-down, no-account man like me even laugh where there's happiness?
  • Extract from : « The Long Chance » by Peter B. Kyne
  • It was ever so: at the moment of triumph comes the fall, and the royal Queen becomes the no-account nursery child.
  • Extract from : « Baby Jane's Mission » by Reginald Parnell
  • But I suppose you're afraid the no-account Count won't figure his life is worth thirty thousand dollars.
  • Extract from : « Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad » by Edith Van Dyne
  • The other two no-account chaps spotted their captain, and began to move slowly towards us.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Of course these or'nary, no-account, range wolves reckoned my friends would wait for day before they attempted tracking.
  • Extract from : « A Man in the Open » by Roger Pocock
  • He hasn't got religion, but keeps a trunk full of no-account gods, believed in by ignorant persons.
  • Extract from : « A Man in the Open » by Roger Pocock
  • Badger-face drilled a look into Horace, who had put on his most no-account expression.
  • Extract from : « Friar Tuck » by Robert Alexander Wason
  • But do you know, we're getting to spend lots of money for little, no-account things.
  • Extract from : « Peggy Raymond's Way » by Harriet Lummis Smith

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