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

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

And the Savior who approached her not thinking she might – just might – have plan is, as we say in the UK, a total ninny.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2017

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

Don’t be such a ninny, I scolded myself.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson