nonentity
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Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
A few days ago he called the Kremlin leader "a nonentity" and "a cowardly waste of space", says BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023
Overseas, the U.S. government treated Mr. Joseph like a nonentity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
And now, also in Hollywood fashion, after decades as a nonentity, the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Since I had applied for such a nonentity of a job, Quackenbush, who had known as little about me as I had about him, knew now.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez is a popular target of debate-me dudes, who can be high-profile media figures or nonentities.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019
Her portrait subjects included both celebrities and nonentities, all swathed in the same luxe wrapping.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
While Messrs. Thomas Hardy, Black, and Besant, it would seem, are all Unworthy serious notice, mere nonentities ephemeral!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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