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
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
Freedom from nincompoop bosses giving me warnings for insubordination.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2016
But nincompoop or not, she would have to report to him if she worked for the Navy.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.