Example Sentences

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A nebbishy New Yorker turns his lens on his fellow citizens in the quirky docuseries “How to With John Wilson.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2020

We’re in familiar territory for the author: a North London setting, amiable comedy and nebbishy internal monologues about the awkwardness of social interactions.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

Gray holds court with a nebbishy, self-mocking churn of anecdote and lamentation, and his humor, in the outer-borough Ashkenazi style, can leave one unsure where the shtick ends and the real self-loathing starts.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

“Spy,” the 2015 film in which McCarthy portrayed a nebbishy, deskbound CIA bureaucrat who goes undercover as a field operative, was surprisingly entertaining.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2018

When Jeff Bezos launched Amazon as an online bookstore back in the 1990s, his physical character was that of an excited but nebbishy nerd.

From The Verge • Oct. 19, 2017