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
Before the sixth season, Mr. Metcalfe’s first as showrunner, he faced the task of replacing Larry Linville, who was leaving the show after his run as the officious, rules-obsessed ninny Major Frank Burns.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
And the Savior who approached her not thinking she might – just might – have plan is, as we say in the UK, a total ninny.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 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
Can you imagine what it’s like to go to Gym and have Coach Quatrini, the pied ninny, announce that morning exercises will be stretches so that we can all practice soaring like Ariel the Fairy?
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
So, although the fact that there are a significant number of ninnies among the 329 million people in this country is embarrassing, it is not surprising.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2020
Nothing will stop ninnies from their ninnying, but we can recognize that it is, for the most part, a ridiculous endeavor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
New Hampshire voters aren’t ninnies about the weather.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2016
People want to feel safe and have precdictability, yet we are right now a nation of scared ninnies, that cable, talk radio, and the 10 o'clock news only exacerabates.
From Time ● Jun. 6, 2013
“Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
