Definition of "no-account" []

• Informal Worthless; good-for-nothing: my no-account brother-in-law. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."