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
I guess I want someone to tell me that it’s possible that I’m a nincompoop here and that straight men can “sound gay.”
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2020
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
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
