nonentity

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

And now, also in Hollywood fashion, after decades as a nonentity, the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

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

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

And yet our annual picture exhibitions are crowded with the portraits of these nonentities.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.