nonentities
Example Sentences
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He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
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
Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2020
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
While Messrs. Thomas Hardy, Black, and Besant, it would seem, are all Unworthy serious notice, mere nonentities ephemeral!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir