nonhero
Americannoun
plural
nonheroesEtymology
Origin of nonhero
Example Sentences
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In “The Red Badge of Courage,” the novel that made Crane famous, at the age of twenty-three, the nonhero Henry Fleming desperately wants to be perceived as brave, even though he deserts in a moment of cowardice, and doesn’t really seem to believe in bravery except as a perception.
From The New Yorker
The Peanuts chronicle has become world famous, and its harried nonhero is beloved by all who follow his tribulations.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he has done nothing else, Erich Remarque has given to modern fiction a new sort of nonhero�the nameless and rootless refugee who is forever on the run.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pryar himself, fashionably enough, is a nonhero.
From Time Magazine Archive
This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar and cop.
From Time Magazine Archive
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