no-count
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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When I say ‘we,’ I mean every Cleveland no-count between the ages of 14 and 24.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2018
Barrett, a no-count Brave tossed into the $50,000 deal for Mort Cooper, won 21 games for St. Louis under Southworth's persuasive handling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Health officers refused to let the poison be poured into an abandoned well or buried in "some no-count piece of land."
From Time Magazine Archive
He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself."
From Time Magazine Archive
She got some no-count brother she wants yuh tuh hook up wid and take keer of Ah reckon.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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