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nonentity

[non-en-ti-tee] / nɒnˈɛn tɪ ti /
NOUN
nullity
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NOUN
nonexistent thing
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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

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

He also wasn’t supposed to let me, a nonentity on loan from JV, fill in for him.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

A continual worry is that those in the balcony cheap seats might fall while trying to get a better view, setting off a "Niagara of nonentities."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015

All of us," he says, "are nonentities, deprived of happiness.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky




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