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Recent Examples of nincompoop Korda has declared that, because his nine sons are, frankly, nincompoops and rapscallions, Liesl will be the sole heir to his fortune. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2025 Paired alongside Williams and Dunst’s airheads, Ferrell plays a nincompoop Bob Woodward, but the role doesn’t give him much of a chance to cut loose. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025 Being a nature nincompoop may have saved him from a grisly fate. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2025 With all due respect, those people are nincompoops. Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2024 As Jimmy, the chief pushover, Jimmy, Norman makes for a sympathetic enough nincompoop. Chris Willman, Variety, 16 June 2024 Only one police officer pops up there, a smiley nincompoop who sucks down children’s birthday cake from behind a desk and shrugs his way through conversation. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024 Somebody else could have gotten away with doing half as much, but Ruffalo proves a compound nincompoop. Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024 Tom was of course not a nincompoop, but a serious, thoughtful person who hungered to add substance to sketch comedy. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nincompoop
Noun
  • President Trump has repeatedly called Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell stupid, terrible, a fool, and referred to him as a person of average mentality.
    Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • That fool’s from my family’s hometown over there in Mexico.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The neck of a young Egyptian goose pierced by an arrow.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
  • Walter Valle brought his goose named Gilbert Ryan Gosling.
    Molly Gibbs, Sacbee.com, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • At least his brand of evil maniac is kind of funny and endearing.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • The fact that death itself is the protagonist, rather than some mask-wearing homicidal maniac, is what gives these films their morbid allure.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025

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