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
Among the subtler striking images she portrayed repeatedly was that of her boss, Mark Meadows, as a disengaged nincompoop.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2022
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
