nonentities
Example Sentences
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Virtually all of these supposed terrorists turned out to be nonentities — “ghost leads,” as they were called.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez is a popular target of debate-me dudes, who can be high-profile media figures or nonentities.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019
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
Paulet was as obedient to the prevailing wind as a weathercock; Wriothesley was an obsequious, greedy sycophant; Paget a humble official with little influence, and the rest were nonentities.
From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
