nonentity

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

“Imagine them not even getting his name right, Weasley. It’s almost as though he’s a complete nonentity, isn’t it?” he crowed.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

Thus we get, most recently, NBC’s ludicrous “La Brea” and Apple TV+’s mopey “Invasion,” which ask their audiences to invest themselves in the struggles of nonentities wrapped in enigmas.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021

Among these, it is perfectly true that there existed many obscurities and some obvious nonentities.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund