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nincompoop

[nin-kuhm-poop, ning-] / ˈnɪn kəmˌpup, ˈnɪŋ- /


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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

“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

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




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