nondescript

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The final convulsions of Nazi Europe continued to cast up a collection of murderers and innocents, thieves and victims, heroes and nondescripts and mystery men such as the world has seldom seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ted Healy, for instance, an engaging, bald-headed young man, is assisted in his swift antics by a trio of abject, greasy nondescripts whose entrance prompts Mr. Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty."

From Time Magazine Archive

All manner of ragged nondescripts blink at us out of their tragic resignation and hint at a ribald reciprocity of nature, making the whole world kin.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

There were generally from fifteen to thirty present; men of all classes: Journalists, actors, lawyers, out-at-elbows nondescripts.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

Ranchmen came riding in, followed by prairie schooners or round-up wagons, for their camps; motley nondescripts from Deadwood and places round about.

From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Seton, Ernest Thompson