Insect
Insect noun - A person of no importance or influence.
Usage example: the magazine's editor in chief was notorious for treating staffers as insects, often not even bothering to learn their names
Kingpin
Kingpin noun - One of high position or importance within a group.
Both words in one sentence
- He proceeds to humiliate Kingpin in a fist fight in front of all the other inmates, pointing out that for all his influence and power, Spider-Man could crush him like an insect because while he's physically just an impressive specimen of normal humanity, Spider-Man is SUPERhuman.
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