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nonentity

How to use nonentity in a sentence

Her husband is a nonentity who barely speaks, which is perhaps why he doesn’t appear in any of the Disney adaptations.

An indolent blonde, fond of dancing, but a nonentity from both the moral and the intellectual standpoints.

Led astray by party spirit, the ministers sent Admiral Pigot, a mere nonentity, to supersede Rodney.

Olybrius, the then reigning nonentity, died in October of the same year.

It is the name of a nonentity, and has no right to a place among first principles.

The truth seems to be that as soon as Boccaccio was separated from life he became a nonentity.

He was such a colorless nonentity that he simply seemed to fade into the background of the walls once he had made his entrance.

UNWISE CHILDGORDON RANDALL GARRETT

In other respects the Duc de Nevers was a harmless nonentity and turned out well—for a Mancini.

She's a perfect nonentity, and she studies like a grammar-school girl—it just disgusts Martha.

SMITH COLLEGE STORIESJOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM

Noli, like Albenga, was once the chief town of a little political division; but to-day it is a complete nonentity.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985