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
The follow-up on the red carpet was just as much of a nonentity, asking Garner what fans should know about the Silver Surfer.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
Shawn is played by out actor Rafael L. Silva, but the character’s sexuality is only noted in passing, and his relationship with his boyfriend is a nonentity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
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
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
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
Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
Virtually all of these supposed terrorists turned out to be nonentities — “ghost leads,” as they were called.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
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
As soon as he became conscious of his strength, they would be reduced to nonentities.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
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