nebbish
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Carell: My instinct was to not make Greg a nebbish, because I didn’t want it to be Walter Mitty.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
But “Parade” has always been strange anyway, seeking to make commercial entertainment out of a violent history and, because he’s a victim, a hero of a nebbish.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023
Jordan’s bumbling, nebbish assistant Stan — played by Wayne Knight, whom I knew as the guy who gets smeared by a dilophosaurus in “Jurassic Park,” another childhood favorite — was hysterically funny.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021
By Season 10, Hawkeye has become a bit of a nebbish, and has long since stopped womanizing, telling a nurse at one point, “I can’t take advantage of your feelings for me.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 24, 2018
Hugh Sidneys was nondescript, not quite a nebbish, but close.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
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