How To Use Nincompoop In A Sentence
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And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops who insist on chatting away on their cell phones during the show - if their cell phones are equipped with recorders.
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I suppose that they only prayer we have is that the infighting between Obama-nuts and Hillary-ites coupled with the GOPs own aversion to McCain coupled with whatever nincompoop he chooses as his VP will lead to the first time a third party can win the White House.
Eight Edwards delegates now moving to Obama
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But it is fun to think of the worst American newsrooms as comprising a bunch of jerks working for an elite corps of nincompoops.
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`No, you withered, senseless, quibbling, drivelling, fumbling nincompoop!
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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'nincompoop' -- that's only his coarse Scotch breeding; and I believe
Villette
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And given ZANU Labour's tendency to reward disgraced Ministers with a fresh chance or three to lord it over us, we could be forgiven for thinking it won't be long before this nincompoop is ordering our lives for us once more.
Archive 2009-01-18
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Now wizened, and hopefully wiser too, he still is not able to leave an impression on anybody except two real nincompoops in the film.
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In his memoirs he admonished himself as a nincompoop for introducing the law.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's great for you, too, because if your one guy is an ill-prepared nincompoop, then your whole country doesn't go down with him,’ she says.
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As a result, the Ministry of Works runs the very real risk of being labelled cowardly and managerial nincompoops for failing to see and act on glaring truths for fear of making an error.
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The small hotel bar is one of the most uncomfortable places I have ever visited, and filled with the sort of shrill nincompoops that I would normally go to great lengths to avoid.
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Then of course there are curmudgeons like me who think it's a waste of time to invent something that helps nincompoops organize their recipes, play solitaire, or set a trap for a wireless mouse.
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Actually, a pigheaded nincompoop was what he called her, in distinctly unloverlike tones.
LADY of SKYE
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I'm not really surrounded by nincompoops, I know that.
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When the audience looked at him, it saw a sniveling nincompoop.
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Could Bruce get arrested for calling the President a nincompoop, nitwit, nefarious or a nematocyst?
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Then of course there are curmudgeons like me who think it's a waste of time to invent something that helps nincompoops organize their recipes, play solitaire, or set a trap for a wireless mouse.
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Enough of the tomnoddy nonsense with its runes and galactic join-the-dots nincompoopery.
Astrologers angered by stars
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Nothing will pierce the thick skins of the nincompoops that lord over us.
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For some people, this can be horrible, and certainly if you're not a nincompoop you'll be aware of this and try and manage your public presentation of personality accordingly.
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America felt more comfortable with a nincompoop, or at least a lot of those who voted did.
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The best it can do is take people's minds off it by producing wow-provoking new initiatives and making National look like a bunch of nincompoops.
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When did you last hear a politician – or anyone, for that matter – say "nincompoop"?
Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog
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Two of those disruptive neo-nincompoops got busted by me after the Cardin townhall - they will not be disruptive again.
Health care town halls will press on, could get heated
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Witherspoon is a gangster, a cheat, and a God damn liar, but he is of very little actual importance; merely a boodling nincompoop.
First Lensman
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Hill was famed for his short fuse on the newsroom floor, and reserved his most withering insult - "nincompoop" - for those he felt had performed particularly poorly.
The Guardian World News
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Tulliver most justly sets down as a "nincompoop" -- is almost sillier than
Famous Reviews
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Reading such works, I am inclined to throw the egotistical nincompoops out the window - as this is frequently impossible, I content myself with throwing the relevant books across the room.
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Again, it cannot be gainsaid that the greater number of those who hold high places in our poetical literature are absolute nincompoops - fellows alike innocent of reason and of rhyme.
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Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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For him to be basically the put-upon straight man surrounded by zanies, including Allison Janney as the wacky boss and Nate Torrence as her nincompoop son, seems like a waste.
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I've even learned to look past her attempts to create an unwelcome climate for those of us who are striving to take steps against the whole mumpish brotherhood of fatuous nincompoops.
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The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'.
Another Fine Mess
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At this point I'm sure some of you are thinking I'm some sort of sanctimonious horse's butt, preaching to all the nincompoops.
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We'd feel like nincompoops without our jackets and helmets.
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I can wish that the Pope would do something almost no Pope has ever done: fire a bunch of bishops for being nincompoops.
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(Sadly, things turned awkward when I proclaimed I'd once eaten a memorable plate of scrunchies served in calamari sauce, which led to an energetic exchange with my wife who, it turns out, was quite right in pointing out that a "scrunchy" is in fact a stretchy band used to fasten a woman's hair and I am a nincompoop.)
Ottawa Sun
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They kicked out our competent people and posted nincompoops.
Times, Sunday Times
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blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are
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Sayles' new movie Silver City is a political critique with a nincompoop who media handlers and powerful businesspeople freely manipulate.
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Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan called Palin a "nincompoop" last month for her downplaying of the Gipper's political legacy.
Ed Rollins To Sarah Palin: 'You're No Reagan'
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The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The responsibility for putting a nincompoop in charge of federal disaster relief doesn't rest with the nincompoop.
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a regular nincompoop
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Economist, former assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page; yesterday called the goofball the president in case anyone has any doubt an “insane war criminal” in an article on counterpunch.org because the nincompoop seems intent on war with Iran.
Think Progress » Congress warns Bush over Iran.
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I'm weary of this phoney controversy and tired of defending the jug-eared nincompoop.
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Or maybe you think I'm a crass, stupid, nincompoop?
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Costume rental shops report brisk business in trying to keep up with the insatiable demand of name-dropping nincompoops looking for funky fashions and gaudy gowns to wear for the event.
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As each day brings yet another piece of evidence to demonstrate their incompetence, people sit there open-mouthed that they have the effrontery to claim they are ‘dealing’ with whatever the latest foul-up is, that yet another ‘review’ is to take place (everyone now understands that to mean ‘kick into the long grass’), that lessons will be learnt and that such and such a nincompoop is a fit and proper person to clear up the mess he or she has created.
McBlackadder The Dancing Bear
