nonentity
noun
a person or thing of no importance.
nonentities
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pluralof nonentity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
A continual worry is that those in the balcony cheap seats might fall while trying to get a better view, setting off a "Niagara of nonentities."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015
"I don't know what has come to me," he said to himself; "I can't settle to any kind of work; and I don't care a straw for sight-seeing with a pack of nonentities."
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
