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
In the primary’s final days, New Hampshire Democrats who are supporting Mr. Biden engaged in a bit of self-congratulation while dismissing Mr. Phillips as a nonentity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
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
He has been largely overshadowed in the public's consciousness by the president before him, John F. Kennedy, who dismissed Johnson as a nonentity.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021
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
He was a nonentity even among the nonentities who remained after Yeltsin’s perpetual clearing-out of his cabinets.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
It follows from this that nonentities often attain the highest social positions, while originality, creative power, perseverance, honesty, responsibility and duty take a back place.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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