Blair later berated himself as "a naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop" for introducing it.
I'd completely forgotten, for example, that the long sequence where Bertie and Logue run through mechanical exercises together ends on an impressively trite note, with Bertie repeating the word "father" over and over again, 10 minutes after a scene in which his dad shouts at him for being a useless stuttering nincompoop.
For years, Boswell was considered a fool, a nincompoop, a fawning sycophant who, by chance, had produced a masterpiece.
Mr Lagardère, who controls Lagardère's stake, says he intends to become chairman.Executives at EADS are dismayed to see their future boss behave like a nincompoop.
Mr Perry has been outed as a foreign-policy nincompoop (he thinks Turkey is run by terrorists) and Mr Gingrich has put his overweening vanity on display.
Brian Sewell, a British critic, has called him a northern "nincompoop".
During a row with Matty and LaBoeuf, he wails, "I'm an old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpie in trousers and a nincompoop".
Great bowlers can make journeyman captains appear like geniuses while a poor bowling attack can make an astute tactician seem like a nincompoop.
"We were here opening 'Holy Grail,' and a journalist said, 'What's your next film?' And I said, 'Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory.' " After concluding that "you can't send up Christ," he went on, the Pythons invented Brian Cohen, a Judean nincompoop mistaken for the Messiah.
So you wait and wait and wait, and true love turns out to be a nincompoop with a venereal disease".
