ninny

Example Sentences

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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

The people who are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would have you believe that you are a ninny because you might wish for such a thing.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

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

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