nonperson

Example Sentences

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When Swann denounces the persecution of the Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason, he becomes a nonperson and, along with other "Dreyfusards," is blacklisted.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022

He soon was rendered a nonperson within the Soviet Union, as his successor Leonid Brezhnev assumed the leadership.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2022

Her old friends shun her as a nonperson.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

Not only was Paul Robeson — another great athlete of that first wave era — reduced to an Orwellian nonperson for all practical purposes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

Prut was a nonperson, seemed almost as invisible as the mythical Invisible God Himself, and would remain so until called upon to do whatever Master Rababull commanded of him.

From Si'Wren of the Patriarchs by Cheney, Roland Jon