nullity
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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
Things had all been stark, unreal, barren, mere nullities before.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In this point of view they are considered, at least in this country, as mere nullities.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
These historical characters are not mere shadows, puppets, or nullities, but very real men and women, our own flesh and blood.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
They are the necessary concomitants of law, without which laws are mere nullities.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts
But I leave the glory of photographing nullities to the geniuses of the age, and run to the first words which could, without impiety, be called dialogue.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
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