ninny

Example Sentences

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He did not call Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who was in attendance at the Senate meeting, a ninny.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2024

Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Achilles is a besotted fool; Patroclus a figure both narcissistic and stupid; Hector a fraud; Ulysses a hustler; Ajax a lout; Paris a ninny.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2015

Siegfried can seem a passive ninny in the traditional “Swan Lake”; here he’s even more passive and delusional.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2015

Can you imagine what it’s like to go to Gym and have Coach Quatrini, the pied ninny, announce that morning exercises will be stretches so that we can all practice soaring like Ariel the Fairy?

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt