nonentities

Example Sentences

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Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021

Virtually all of these supposed terrorists turned out to be nonentities — “ghost leads,” as they were called.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

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

Secure in his parliamentary majorities and the favours of his queen, he imagined the people at large mere nonentities, and set them at defiance, while he must have laughed at their tameness and stupidity!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne