nincompoop
Example Sentences
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A multinational corporation intent on protecting franchises that bring it more than $80 billion a year has thus far made its adversary look like a blustering nincompoop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Among the subtler striking images she portrayed repeatedly was that of her boss, Mark Meadows, as a disengaged nincompoop.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2022
“I had no intention of sitting on the bench like a nincompoop and watching the parade go by,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2019
Pretty soon the goal is sinking each other, proving once and for all that the other person is a complete nincompoop.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2017
But nincompoop or not, she would have to report to him if she worked for the Navy.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
