nonentity
a person or thing of no importance or significance
Nonentity in a sentence
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Once a powerful magnate, he ended his days a political nonentity.
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Reviewers noted that the novelist, once known for blank prose, had pared her sentences down until scarcely a superfluous word remained.
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