nonentity
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Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
A few days ago he called the Kremlin leader "a nonentity" and "a cowardly waste of space", says BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023
Kei is a nonentity of a screen actor.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
He has been largely overshadowed in the public's consciousness by the president before him, John F. Kennedy, who dismissed Johnson as a nonentity.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021
He also wasn’t supposed to let me, a nonentity on loan from JV, fill in for him.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
Autocratic leaders, as Joachim Fest writes, are often "demonic nonentities."
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
Her portrait subjects included both celebrities and nonentities, all swathed in the same luxe wrapping.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
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
As his partners and helpers, he always engages nonentities, without power of initiative, who blindly follow his orders.
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
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