Tulliver most justly sets down as a "nincompoop" -- is almost sillier than. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
But I would forgive you because you used the word "nincompoop". From Wordnik.com. [Bunnies have a reputation] Reference
When did you last hear a politician – or anyone, for that matter – say "nincompoop"?. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog] Reference
Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan called Palin a "nincompoop" last month for her downplaying of the Gipper's political legacy. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Rollins To Sarah Palin: 'You're No Reagan'] Reference
The word "nincompoop" (or however you spell it) was one of my words, and now N is saying it CONSTANTLY and cracking up each time he does. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
What kind of nincompoop thinks Americans are obliged to vote according to party affiliation?. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Are you going to marry that grinning nincompoop? '. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A posturing blowhard and a half-educated nincompoop. From Wordnik.com. [New Rudy Rollout Begins] Reference
How often, by the way, you use that word nincompoop. From Wordnik.com. [Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger] Reference
"He " he called me a nit-wit " and a nincompoop ...". From Wordnik.com. [The Ship of Adventure]
"Al is a nincompoop and Tipper has just outgrown him.". From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Gertler: Marriage: The Gory Details] Reference
In what did that nincompoop resemble an inspector-general?. From Wordnik.com. [The Inspector-General] Reference
That he was a world-class nincompoop when it came to kids?. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Dad]
KING: Someone would have to be a nincompoop to take the job. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2009] Reference
If he isn't, then he's a nincompoop, and you get rid of him. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Russell, July 19, 1975. Interview E-0014-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
You're just a hysterical nincompoop, like all the rest of them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009] Reference
But on foreign policy, he came across as a bit of a nincompoop. From Wordnik.com. [Rudy Softens Criticism Of Bill Clinton's Counterterrorism Record] Reference
You're just a hysterical nincompoop, like all the rest of the them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007] Reference
"You miserable nincompoop, I'll have you drummed out of the Force!". From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
Or maybe it was "You, Rockgod," to be followed by "Me, nincompoop.". From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: Shambling Towards Bethlehem.] Reference
What a nincompoop by Dave Lindorff on Monday, Jan 7, 2008 at 3: 42: 15 PM. From Wordnik.com. [9-11 Cover-Up, Treason and The Bomb] Reference
"The man's a nincompoop," says "General" Stephan Jacobson, Cape leader of the AWB. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And Wallace is standing there looking like a-- sort of a dazed nincompoop staring at this. From Wordnik.com. [The New Dealers' War] Reference
Correct Palin's Pakistan gaffe, without making her look like a nincompoop on foreign policy. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Blames Palin's Pakistan Flub With Citizen On "Gotcha Journalism"] Reference
A lesser woman would have called the reporter an nincompoop and moved on to the next question. From Wordnik.com. [Patient CBS programming chief faces McPherson questions] Reference
"That man is an interfering nincompoop!" she said furiously, her face flushed, her eyes bright. From Wordnik.com. [A Funeral In Blue]
(Even if one adjusts for the American tendency to occasionally return a nincompoop, as in 2004.). From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race] Reference
You permitted yourself to treat your tutor thus, you nincompoop, and to dismiss him from his post?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gambler] Reference
Heck, Steve McPherson would have called the reporter a nincompoop and moved on to the next question. From Wordnik.com. [Patient CBS programming chief faces McPherson questions] Reference
He might read a lesson to many a two-legged prig, were the bipedal nincompoop capable of learning it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892] Reference
Well, it generally makes me, an otherwise intelligent person, feel like a nincompoop and it's a feeling I'd rather not experience. From Wordnik.com. [lacuriosa Diary Entry] Reference
But it was clearly just an excuse for the fact that she's a policy nincompoop and could only recite from the script she memorized. From Wordnik.com. [Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air] Reference
Lieutenant Hayter, one of Watson's men, was bid to the Council, but the nincompoop was huffed because he wasn't allowed precedence of the. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
"Shag," asked the colonel, still chuckling, "what do you think that nincompoop had the infernal audacity to offer me in the way of a book?". From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference
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