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Recent Examples of nincompoop 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 One wonders what those worthless nincompoops would have done during the Nazi holocaust that murdered upward of seven million Jews, and over seven million more victims besides. Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nincompoop
Noun
  • Both arenas are designed around performers, sometimes made to look the fool and other times a noble voice of the people, but where one lands always depends on the moment in which a joke or plea is delivered.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Don’t let the shiny patent black leather fool you, though.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The zoo learned of the case of highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) on Tuesday after test results came back on the goose, which had died on the grounds.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The goose appeared to have reached that altitude by a combination of flying and walking, rangers in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The stupid!
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021

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