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
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
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
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
Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2020
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
In a few weeks the rectory would be once more tenanted by one of those nonentities the squire had either patronised or scorned all his life.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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