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
Tudyk skillfully played another bird brain for Disney as Hei Hei the nincompoop rooster in Moana, so a cranky parrot should be a breeze.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2019
Higher courts, and history, ultimately vindicated John Sirica’s belief that he shouldn’t be “sitting on the bench like a nincompoop and watching the parade go by.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2018
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
We can claim that he was just a nincompoop or a madman.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
