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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nincompoopery
Noun
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But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
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Boy stuff and the preposterousness of it all.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Italian football is compelling in its sheer unpredictability, the sweep of its beauty and preposterousness on so many levels.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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The craziness is visceral — a combination of pounding music, billowing smoke, crackling barbecues and revving engines.—
Jonathan Hawkins,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Director Nisha Ganatra jollies it along, with editor Eleanor Infante making as much rhythmic sense of the mix-ups and physical craziness as possible.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Aug. 2025
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Annually, Wheeler has to demonstrate his manic-zaniness by jumping out the window of a local business.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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The previous sentence illustrates the inanity of my desire.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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But coming from Alexander Karp, the CEO and cofounder of Palantir Technologies, this concern-trolling about a growing censoriousness in ‘the culture’ feels almost intentional in its absurdity.—
Book Marks
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The result is an absurdity that can elicit instinctual laughter at the grossest imagery imaginable.—
Robert Niles,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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There was the escalating lunacy of Sal and Quinn’s backlot power struggle, up to and including a hurled burrito.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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Yang is genius not just for playing the easy pickins of George Santos but high-concept lunacy like a gay oompaloompa and the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.—
Steven Zeitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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Burroughs tosses almonds into her smoothies to add nuttiness and a creamy texture.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
15 Sep. 2025
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Mayonnaise helps to hold the tuna together and toasted sesame oil lends incomparable nuttiness.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Nincompoopery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nincompoopery. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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