ninny

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Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Many of the lavishly themed attractions were not yet operating during my visit, but I’m kind of a slide ninny and probably wouldn’t have ridden the more aggressive ones anyway.

From New York Times • May 30, 2017

When Life Is Beautiful won best foreign language film, its director Roberto Benigni won the hearts of the world by clambering across the backs of the auditorium’s chairs like a terrible manchild ninny.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017

Achilles is a besotted fool; Patroclus a figure both narcissistic and stupid; Hector a fraud; Ulysses a hustler; Ajax a lout; Paris a ninny.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2015

She asked him why he needed to know that, and he told her that Doug Swieteck’s brother was in his office at that very moment for having called Mr. Ludema a pied ninny.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt