Example sentences for: nebbishes

How can you use “nebbishes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More easily, one can imagine nebbishes banding together to promote a nebbish agenda, kvetching that they are systematically discriminated against, demanding Nebbish Studies at universities, and complaining that history textbooks treat them as losers.

  • There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation.

  • It is no accident that the word nebbish originated in Yiddish, a language without a nation that is spoken by a people repeatedly beaten down by pogroms and thus in a good position to empathize with nebbishes.

  • By definition, nebbishes are whiners, lacking self-confidence, generally inept, and on the losing end of social transactions--all characteristics that work against their ever achieving fame.

  • Or, to put it another way, what now separates the nerds from the nebbishes?


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