ninny
Example Sentences
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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
When Life Is Beautiful won best foreign language film, its director Roberto Benigni won the hearts of the world by clambering across the backs of the auditorium’s chairs like a terrible manchild ninny.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017
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
“I’m sure they haven’t stolen Peter. Stop being such a ninny, and let me get back to sleep!”
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
