Sentence examples for a nincompoop from inspiring English sources
Their wunderkind was a nincompoop.
Only a nincompoop would do that.
"You're a dunderhead and a nincompoop," screamed North.
"He refused to ever be a nincompoop husband".
But they can call me a nincompoop all they like.
When he lands in the big smoke, perplexed by the airport escalator, it's not hard to understand the appeal the film has, particularly for American audiences: it's a story built on the simple pleasures of watching a jovial nincompoop from an exotic land bumble through life in a metropolis.
He sued for wrongful dismissal and, after being denounced by another engineer as a "lying nincompoop," collected a staggering settlement of $226,886.84 (more than $5 million in today's dollars).
Don't miss the devastating portrait of a Swami Hanuhaak, apparently a court guru in residence, who is shown as a potbellied nincompoop wearing elevator sandals and a peacock headdress that nearly doubles his height.
Brian Sewell, a British critic, has called him a northern "nincompoop".
Lord Plymouth, who headed the British government's non-intervention committee for Spain, was a "patrician nincompoop", Ward Price of the Daily Mail "an odious toady".
