nincompoop

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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

And was it enough to let us stop calling him a nincompoop?

From Slate • Dec. 11, 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

“Booed, threatened, arrested, evicted, convicted, spat upon, named as a nincompoop in the newspaper” — such was his life in early 1973.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2016

Andrew wasn’t a nincompoop, as you will very soon see.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers