non-person

British

noun

a person regarded as nonexistent or unimportant; a nonentity

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Labour MP Diane Abbott has accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating her as a "non-person", during the fallout after a Tory donor made racist comments about her.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024

In audio testimony, Thomas Durst says that his siblings Wendy and Douglas never mentioned Kathie again after the disappearance: “It was like she had become a non-person and I decided, ‘You know what?

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

"The regime needed to silence me, convert me into a non-person," he told a news conference.

From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2021

"He’s become a sort of a royal pariah, a non-person."

From Fox News • Mar. 28, 2021

And I became a non-person in the Boston fog, and Lufthansa put me in a limousine with some other non-persons and sent us to a motel for a non-night.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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