nebbish
noun
a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
nebbishy
-
a word derived from
nebbish.
Example Sentences
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Henry, in tweed suits and suitably nebbishy glasses, feels more like a company man than his two colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
That person turned out to be Attorney General Merrick Garland, played by Mikey Day in an especially nebbishy manner.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Hauser, as Richard, is absolutely superb: nebbishy, so solicitous of authority that he barely bothers to defend himself and seeming, at times, slightly dimwitted.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2019
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
