"no-account" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more no-account",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most no-account",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "no-account (comparative more no-account, superlative most no-account)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, Joel Chandler Harris, Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War, page 48:",
          "text": "\"There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Charles De Lint, The Onion Girl, page 274:",
          "text": "\"Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news,\" he says.\nWhat bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Horne Burns, Paul Fussell, The Gallery, page 124:",
          "text": "You see, corporal, the human race is getting worse all the time. Each year we know less than we did in the preceding. We're more no-account now than we were five hundred years ago.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account."
      ],
      "id": "en-no-account-en-adj-tRKwPFlg",
      "links": [
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "merit",
          "merit"
        ],
        [
          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
        ],
        [
          "account",
          "account"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, British, colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "no-count"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "no-account"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more no-account",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most no-account",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "no-account (comparative more no-account, superlative most no-account)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "American English",
        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1898, Joel Chandler Harris, Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War, page 48:",
          "text": "\"There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Charles De Lint, The Onion Girl, page 274:",
          "text": "\"Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news,\" he says.\nWhat bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Horne Burns, Paul Fussell, The Gallery, page 124:",
          "text": "You see, corporal, the human race is getting worse all the time. Each year we know less than we did in the preceding. We're more no-account now than we were five hundred years ago.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "merit",
          "merit"
        ],
        [
          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
        ],
        [
          "account",
          "account"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, British, colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "no-count"
    }
  ],
  "word": "no-account"
}