ninny
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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
The people who are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would have you believe that you are a ninny because you might wish for such a thing.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2018
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
She asked him why he needed to know that, and he told her that Doug Swieteck’s brother was in his office at that very moment for having called Mr. Ludema a pied ninny.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
So, although the fact that there are a significant number of ninnies among the 329 million people in this country is embarrassing, it is not surprising.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2020
New Hampshire voters aren’t ninnies about the weather.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2016
Problem with that idea is that it would send the offending corporate ninnies abroad to escape prosecution just as some now go to escape taxes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014
There, beneath a slideshow highlighting beer cocktails, you can see ninnies dismissing the category categorically: “What a waste of good beer.”
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012
“Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
