nincompoop

Example Sentences

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Tom was of course not a nincompoop, but a serious, thoughtful person who hungered to add substance to sketch comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 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

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