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Meanings of no-account in English

Portuguese
zero à esquerda
Catalan
desastre

An idle worthless person.

zero à esquerda

Without merit.

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Examples for "goldbrick"
Examples for "goldbrick"
1
I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
Catch-22
2
I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
The University of Hard Knocks
3
Out with the goldbrick first.
The Gentle Grafter
4
We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
Once there was a war
5
He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
Night Shift
1
Then there was Mr. Evringham's younger son, a regular roving ne'er-do-well.
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
2
He's a ne'er-do-well, a blacksheep and a disgrace to his family.
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
3
Kind, as men go, but a ne'er-do-well, a prodigal, a waster.
Man-Size
4
He was a drunken ne'er-do-well, but he was my man.
A Man Four-Square
5
He was a well-known ne'er-do-well among the Italian colony.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
Usage of no-account in English
1
Licking is strictly off-limits, especially for a no-account geek girl like me.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
2
She declared that his trifling, no-account nature made him all but impossible.
The Boss of Little Arcady
3
Can't a low-down, no-account man like me even laugh where there's happiness?
The Long Chance
4
My dad said Wes was a no-account man and he'd always be shiftless.
The stand
5
If that no-account hadn't thrown me off the train, we'd be together yet.
Savage
6
So why are you down here in this no-account little place?
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
7
I can't have such slipshod, no-account names for my hands' children.
Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, at Home
8
I'm gettin' right old and no-account, son; there's no denyin' that.
The Quickening
9
Licking is strictly off-limits, especially for a no-account geek girl like me.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
10
She declared that his trifling, no-account nature made him all but impossible.
The Boss of Little Arcady
11
Can't a low-down, no-account man like me even laugh where there's happiness?
The Long Chance
12
My dad said Wes was a no-account man and he'd always be shiftless.
The stand
13
If that no-account hadn't thrown me off the train, we'd be together yet.
Savage
14
So why are you down here in this no-account little place?
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
15
I can't have such slipshod, no-account names for my hands' children.
Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, at Home
16
I'm gettin' right old and no-account, son; there's no denyin' that.
The Quickening
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No-account through the time