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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He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
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
Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2020
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
In a few weeks the rectory would be once more tenanted by one of those nonentities the squire had either patronised or scorned all his life.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
