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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