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

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

For long years, however, it had been to us a mere deduction from our "doctrine," which all nonentities of all political denominations had mocked at.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich