nebbish

Example Sentences

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Carell: My instinct was to not make Greg a nebbish, because I didn’t want it to be Walter Mitty.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Conversely, Allen writes that while you might presume he was a lonely nebbish in high school, he was in truth very popular and adept at many sports, especially baseball.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

And Stanfield ably carries the cast — Cassius Green’s transformation from nebbish nerd to Always-Be-Closin’ salesman is as delightful to watch as it is funny to see.

From The Verge • Jun. 29, 2018

He adored how little Yontif cared about appearances, this fat, fiery Rutgers-graduated nebbish in a cargo shirt who would probably have been forced to hang himself at Princeton.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

Hugh Sidneys was nondescript, not quite a nebbish, but close.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn