nullity

In the process of conversion, however, she’s reduced to a nullity with a grating personal manner.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

But although what she could do is say, "OK, well if you said that me dropping the charges were a nullity, I'm just going to drop them again."

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2023

A city that could imagine its own improbable existence into reality could just as easily relegate this now-inconvenient natural feature into a nullity or a comedian’s gag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian of the nullity of his naturalization in a letter that came in response to a claim filed by the South American country’s Foreign Ministry.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

The agreeable nullity of Leon’s life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character, none of which she could hope to rival.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

This world is not governed by abstractions, for abstractions are nullities.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture which treat of mariage, or nullities in manage, wherein the doctrine and discipline of divorce, as was lately publish'd, is confirm'd.

From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

There is something inherently vulgar about it; perhaps because our train of thought cannot be very entertaining in itself when we are so glad to break in upon it with irrelevant nullities.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

I have done nothing, aunt," exclaimed Lucy, "and the good are never nullities.

From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade

There was a doggish group, which discussed socks and hair oil and other more exciting things, a young athletic group, a group of 'sweat-guts,' and a group of complete nullities.

From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown