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

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

“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