nebbishy
- a word derived from nebbish.
Example Sentences
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He could veer from affable to prickly, from nebbishy to charismatic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Chief among the film’s modest but welcome pleasures is Odenkirk, whom one wouldn’t typecast as an action hero, but who brings a wry, nebbishy relatability.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021
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
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
