nonentity

Example Sentences

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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

Willy’s humiliating status as a nonentity — as well as his ultimate fate — are both thereby sealed.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2022

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