| 单词 | nincompoop |
| 例句 | But no, those old nincompoops...never mind, I’ve already said it all! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “My personal opinion,” she once admitted, “...is that Safford is a nincompoop.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Andrew wasn’t a nincompoop, as you will very soon see. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z But nincompoop or not, she would have to report to him if she worked for the Navy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We can claim that he was just a nincompoop or a madman. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “I am not a nincompoop,” I say, definitely enjoying myself more than I should be. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I’m not a zombie connoisseur, but to me, all of you nincompoops, however brilliantly executed, have the emotional pull of an army of ants, minus the ants’ dignified social structures and attractive formic-acid exoskeletons. An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Eça is a master of the absurd and his novels are full of such nincompoops, our cowardly alter egos. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “There are vaccine skeptics on the far left and on the far right,” and, he added, it is more difficult to wave them off as unthinking nincompoops if they otherwise agree with you. Can a Play About Vaccines Be a Laughing Matter? 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Who wants a lifelong companion so stiflingly unworldly – a de facto nincompoop, an eternal child? Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z Olivier is too much of a nincompoop to truly care about, and Parrot, on the cusp of his 50s, is mellowing into contentment. 'Parrot and Olivier in America': A historical, comic novel by Peter Carey 2010-04-23T22:16:00Z We should instead use our superior knowledge to patiently educate the rest of you nincompoops. Perspective | Gene Weingarten answers your religion questions. Heaven help us. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Pretty soon the goal is sinking each other, proving once and for all that the other person is a complete nincompoop. Infallibility battles: How to avoid those ‘I’m right and you’re wrong about everything’ fights 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “Booed, threatened, arrested, evicted, convicted, spat upon, named as a nincompoop in the newspaper” — such was his life in early 1973. ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Your daughter should raise a toast to this nincompoop from a cafe while she is on her semester abroad. Ask Amy: Hotel maid gets an earful 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But to the world at large, he's just another posh nincompoop. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z Frustrated with the George W. Bush administration’s response to disasters in Arkansas, he called the Federal Emergency Management Agency “an incompetent bunch of nincompoops that simply can’t run their agency.” Former Arkansas U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, who served 7 terms, dies at 80 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z A multinational corporation intent on protecting franchises that bring it more than $80 billion a year has thus far made its adversary look like a blustering nincompoop. Column: How Disney's lawyers brutally manhandled DeSantis over control of Disney World 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The famed radio host took issue with our “nation of nincompoops” during his first show back from a summer vacation on Tuesday, and pointed the finger at the former president’s base. Howard Stern thinks Trump supporters should live in Russia for a year 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “Pennsylvania is a parochial state. There is a pronounced east-west divide, with voters in Pittsburgh inclined to shunning Philadelphia-area candidates and voting for Pittsburgh area candidates, even if they are nincompoops.” Fetterman knocks Oz with carpetbagger attacks, digs into NJ-Penn rivalry 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z One thing's for sure, though: It's given a lot of Americans yet another reason to vote against Trump and his entire regime of nincompoops. Trump's Chernobyl moment: Phony patriotism can't defeat this virus 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z No, in reality this is what the GOP is now: An expensive PR firm dedicated to lying to the public about whether the most powerful man on the planet is a nincompoop. Why does the Republican Party exist? Mainly to clean up Donald Trump's messes 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “I had no intention of sitting on the bench like a nincompoop and watching the parade go by,” he wrote. Opinion | Trump-friendly judges run out the clock on impeachment 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Lawyers for the Dunn family accused the White House of being directed by the national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, who they described as a “nincompoop”. No 10 denies PM asked Trump to set up Anne Sacoolas meeting in US 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z He also ripped National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien as a “nincompoop” for the “hastily arranged” meeting. Grieving UK family says it was ‘ambushed’ at White House with offer to meet son’s killer 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “Most sensible folk and not a nincompoop in a hurry would understand that.” U.S. security chief 'heaped pain' on grieving parents of UK teen: lawyer 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Trump is often derided by his enemies as an illiterate nincompoop afflicted by a narcissistic personality disorder, and the shoe appears to fit. Is Donald Trump a Russian agent, or the victim of a Deep State Witch Hunt? Sure! 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z All it took was the election of a nincompoop, and the ushering in of a conservative Congress and Supreme Court that ought to put the kibosh on liberal values for a long time to come. Opinion | Can North Korea Trust Us? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Republicans only care about winning: they've elected draft dodgers, nincompoops, second-rate legacy cases and crazed entertainers. An Alabama Senate Candidate Keeps Democratic Leaders Away — but Not Their Money 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z And Mr. Dietl managed to work the term “nincompoop” into some comments on jail reform. New York Today: Who Won the Mayoral Debate? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z We have devolved into a bunch of squabbling nincompoops because we’ve been so artfully played. Ideally, the media and politicians would remind us that we’re on the same team. Opinion | Squabbling and silence 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Discussing the song, he quickly notes that “nincompoop” is derived from the Latin phrase “non compos mentis” meaning “not of sound mind.” Roger Waters speaks out on a grand scale with new album, Us + Them tour 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Waters rails against greed, injustice, lying politicians, brainless leaders and “nincompoop” presidents over 12 tracks. Review: Roger Waters comes out angry, focused on ‘Life’ 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z In other words, white working-class voters were primarily drawn to this blustery nincompoop because the factories were shutting down. Racial, cultural hostility got Trump elected 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Freedom from nincompoop bosses giving me warnings for insubordination. Cat Hulbert: How I got rich beating men at their own game - BBC News 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The spy world seems populated by naive nincompoops who seem to totally disregard any obvious risks from within. Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. Hacking Tools 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z He sullies his own virtue, and his message, by aligning himself with this atrocious nincompoop. Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Only a nincompoop would treat a complex set of issues like human impact on climate as a binary “yes/no” question—as the Partnership and many climate policy promoters do. Climate Denial Finally Pays Off 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z America loves a con man, and whether they choose the shyster, the torquemada, or the overgrown adolescent nincompoop matters not a whit as long as none of them are elected. In Republican Debate, a Feisty Marco Rubio Lays Into Donald Trump 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But the story the series tells is much bigger than that of a run-of-the-mill nincompoop who can be shamed and neutralized by the same means as the guy who shot Cecil the Lion. The problem with treating true crime villains like fictional villains 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Because Donald Trump is, literally, Winston Churchill or Franklin D. Roosevelt compared with this aimless nincompoop. CHARLES HURT: Obama still wearing race-hustler glasses after worst U.S. terror attack since 9/11 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Tony Blair, the prime minister who introduced the law, later berated himself for his naivety, saying he was an “irresponsible nincompoop...I quake at the imbecility of it.” A little less free 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Yet despite his wealth and success, this rich American tycoon is continually either underestimated or just plain derided as a complete nincompoop. The Donald vs. The Jed (Clampett) 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z While this may seem out of character for a baseball lifer, Girardi is no nincompoop either, owning a bachelors in industrial engineering from Northwestern. Joe Girardi Adds ‘App Designer’ to Résumé With Release of ‘Portalball’ 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z There’s still an establishment favorite that the conservative base hates, but unlike the last time around, the remainder of the 2016 field is not as heavily populated with hapless nincompoops. Running for president is tough when everyone hates you: Why Rick Santorum’s second White House try is a wild goose chase 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z How do you dramatize dullards, weaklings, and nincompoops and not wind up with a movie theatre full of gentle snoring? Why Can’t the Future Be Fun? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Academic economists of every variety, along with high-fashion architects, are now generally regarded as deluded nincompoops — correctly, I would say, in both cases. $15,000 Gold and the Madness of Murray Rothbard 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But Stewart’s greatest protege is Stephen Colbert, whose “Colbert Report” was a masterful masquerade presided over by a willful nincompoop. Jon Stewart’s exit as a phony newsman is a loss to real news 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Ten years ago, thanks to the actions of a "naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop", the British people acquired an important new legal right. 10 years of Freedom of Information 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “I don’t think they’re infected. It doesn’t seem reasonable. What do I do? This is the problem with the CDC. What do we do? We’re not Ebola experts, you nincompoops. You are!” Glenn Beck says 4 of his employees live in same complex as Dallas Ebola patient 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z This was about the universal plight, which I happen to have an exceptionally clear perspective on because of my inability to ignore it like some other nincompoops! Lena Dunham: 'I just want to work the death thing out' 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z But there’s nothing that quite seals the nincompoop deal like linking something—anything really—to autism. "Got Autism?" PETA Hits New Low With Anti-Milk Campaign 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The Seahawks have won 15 of their past 16 home games and turned many quality teams into nincompoops during that span. The time is now for Seahawks 2014-01-11T02:09:00Z While some of them might be genuinely wise men and courageous leaders, others were discovered to be petty tyrants, plodding bureaucrats, incompetent nincompoops or simply hangers-on. The Copernician Revolution In Management 2013-07-11T20:20:00Z Blair and Brown, who seemed such mighty figures in 2004, now look like nincompoops who could not see the crisis coming in a financial system whose plutocrats they flattered. Britons have never been angrier or more confused 2012-10-27T23:21:34Z People who are reasonable and moderate and don’t call anyone a nincompoop or suggest that they’re sick to their stomach over this issue are harder to make fun of. Bill James says Nats Strasburg strategy is ‘reasonable’ 2012-08-29T15:40:00Z There is only the Nats' side, which is correct, and the nincompoop side, even if it is endorsed by former players or "experts." MLB: five things we learned in week 15 2012-07-17T14:21:00Z He was, as he says, "a naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop" to have passed the 2000 freedom of information act in the form he did. For the digital revolution, this is the Robespierre moment 2012-07-10T19:30:01Z That young Welsh nincompoop imp has his eyes everywhere; his ears are always open. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z He’s more loyal than Novikoff anyhow, for Novikoff is a soulless, attitudinising nincompoop, while he is the kindliest, most conscientious, most soulful man in the world.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z You made my life wretched, treating me as if I were a leper, out of jealousy of your nincompoop husband, as if I ever cared a fig for him! The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z The idea of that pompous nincompoop writing Lucretia's soliloquy before she poisons her lips! Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z The fact is, before you were ill, Arthur had just written a paper on the interrelations of energy, which he showed to that pompous old nincompoop, Professor Linklight. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Perry was introduced as a swaggerin’ gunslinger and painted as a formidable politician even by detractors, but his simpering “oops” reduced him to an amiable nincompoop. Riff: Electoral Politics and Reality TV 2012-01-04T10:00:05Z Chained to an intolerable nincompoop, with two such subordinates ready to fly at each other's throats or his, and conscious of failing health, he began to long for liberty and repose. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z He sounds to me," remarked the courteous Montagu, "a confirmed and irreclaimable nincompoop. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z “I said that if you bought picture post-cards and had a lovely smile you must be a nincompoop.” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z All this confirms me in the opinion that you are bringing up your son to be a perfect nincompoop. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z Just as the disappearance of formal dance steps reduced every man to a writhing nincompoop on the floor, the absence of waiterly artifice causes social stress where there should be only ease. Texting While Eating: The New Etiquette of Casual Dining 2011-06-22T09:15:00Z Its English prototype was bad enough, but to call the collection of retained nincompoops and Castle hacks a Parliament was to degrade the word to the lowest depths. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z The hero, who is the greatest nincompoop that I have yet created, finds himself suspected by the heroine of having transferred his affections to another lady. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z He must be a nincompoop, if he actually buys them.” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z If he hinted that a certain new comer impressed him unfavorably, the nincompoop was summarily kicked out of society. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The heavily-loaded wagon of the nincompoop and the virago was almost constantly mired. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Young Master Small is introduced to ensnare her with his manifold accomplishments, and certainly he does exhibit himself as a nincompoop of the first water. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z "You miserable nincompoop!" snorted the Admiral, as he rushed out of the room. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Such an insufficient epistle must have disquieted the veriest nincompoop alive. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z The point is not "He was a great man and you are a nincompoop," though that is true. Doubting Sarah 2010-12-24T18:01:00Z Have parents devolved into blithering, incompetent, and inept nincompoops? Well: Ask About Holiday Stress and Children 2010-12-16T17:32:07Z These arrogant, sanctimonious, and self-aggrandizing nincompoops think they’re above the law and can do as they please. City Room: State Senator Guilty of Misdemeanor 2010-12-07T19:15:00Z Even then, Republicans tend to back away from his outstretched hand, and Obama looks like an impotent nincompoop waiting around for cooperation that will never come. Protecting the Obama brand 2010-06-13T20:14:00Z Emoticons and the insertion of a virtual smile should be considered the calling card of the outright nincompoop. The art of online conversation | MT Hughes 2010-03-26T13:00:00Z It says a good deal for the discipline of the Turkish soldier that a sergeant will stand up like a lamb and have his face smacked by the veriest nincompoop of an officer. A Kut Prisoner Why, you dod-gasted idiot, you nincompoop, you cuckoo, you chicken head! The Haunted Pajamas You see I am not quite a nincompoop. Maria Edgeworth I wish I could say as much for the new Vicar of Galton, who is a pompous nincompoop and has introduced a lot of his High Church frippery which so annoys some of the parents. Plashers Mead A Novel Then the officer went on board, an' that little nincompoop of a midshipman boarded us. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington Semper," he had said, "I have always considered you a military nincompoop. The Brain An annoyed voice from one of the bunks said to shut up, and added that there had been already enough trouble from nincompoops without—here it paused, hesitated, and uttered a shrill, sharp, piercing cry. The Ego Machine "Tough," he repeated; "you nincompoop, it's actual ruin; the bank has been robbed by its president—looted—ye 'll never see a cent of it ag'in," and he started toward the house. Checkers A Hard-luck Story The mailed fist puts irritating chips upon swaggering shoulders, and the unresentful turning of smitten cheeks is conducive to a thrifty growth of gelatinous nincompoops. The Blue Goose But Rachel, though she is inclined to be tyrannical, is not such a downright positive old blue-bottle nincompoop as that white-wigged king of kings. The Landleaguers That such a contemptible nincompoop should dare to advise her father to be practical! Amaryllis at the Fair Are Englishmen willing to be longer fooled by a Government of nincompoops? Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule If Lee comes safe out of it, then doubtless he is the best general of our times, and we the best nincompoops that ever the sun looked upon and blushed for. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Why, grandmother," he said one day, "you hint that I am a nincompoop because I don't go and carry off that girl and marry her against her will. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 But the girls held to their own opinion, till at last they were told by Frank that they were two pig-headed nincompoops. The Landleaguers The nincompoops and quidnuncs and newspaper men ravenous for copy who prate about a “yellow peril” may, in this latter fact, find some slight excuse for their blatant lucubrations. The Empire of the East Why, look ye, you nincompoop," was the reply, "can't there be more'n one Jack Jones on the purser's books, and wherefore shouldn't there be more than one San Francisco in the chart of the world? Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas There had been books of scoundrels, there had been books of heroes, there had been books of nincompoops, now there was a book of those people who abound in every community, and who are snobs. Gilbert Keith Chesterton He had been merely a plaything—a simpering, compliment-throwing nincompoop of a type that most society women felt a need for, as food for their vanity. Colorado Jim I think myself that the Marquis, both earlier and later, is made rather too much of a benêt, or, in plain English, a nincompoop. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 I am only an old nincompoop compared to a clever young spark like you. The Light of Scarthey Do you hear? . . . they give me half-sheet roles of old men and old nincompoops, to me! . . . do you hear? . . . to me, who for forty years have upheld the entire classical repertory to me! The Comedienne "Why, you nincompoop, we don't furnish the kerosene." The Varmint How could I succeed out there when those nincompoops at home in the Ministry did not want me to do anything but play their miserable shilly-shally game of drifting with the tide and doing nothing! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant But nincompoops exist: in fact how many of us are not nincompoops in certain circumstances? A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 A casual observer would have put him down as a fashionable nincompoop, one of those young men whose very appearance is supposed to move the British worker to outbursts of socialistic fury. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 In the apartment court, he had a parking space by the basement exit and, for a wonder, no free-wheeling nincompoop had done him out of it last night. A Matter of Proportion That a man with a weak, receding chin is always a nincompoop. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Of course they know nothing, the government, hang it! was a cabinet of nincompoops, I tell you—Aberdeen, Graham and the whole lot of ’em! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant It had never entered my mind before that Uncle Sam is sometimes served by an ignorant and pompous nincompoop! Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers When the conductor protested, the philosopher called him "up-start," "curmudgeon" and "nincompoop," and showed the fallacy of his claim that thirty cents had been lost, since nobody had found it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 The other, if successful, would have made him a nincompoop. Sunk at Sea Did ye hire a nincompoop, I wanter know? How Janice Day Won Lord! shipmates, you could ha’ knocked me down with a feather and club-hauled me for a nincompoop!” The Island Treasure This year, 2015, will be remembered in history as a very stupid year, in which the Morell prize was given to a nincompoop. The Point of View And we get a swivel-chair collection of nincompoops raving weirdly, as the casualty lists pour in, of humanity and democracy. Erik Dorn The teachers who are resigning, for instance, are the nincompoops who've got to be pruned out so that competent teachers can come in. Supermind Are you going to marry that grinning nincompoop?' Despair's Last Journey Edwin was humanly trying to publish in nonchalant gestures the scorn which he really felt for these nincompoops, but whose free expression was hindered by a layer of envy. Clayhanger “Yes, I’m afraid so with the pack of nincompoops we’ve got on board,” he growled. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel Probably, though, she couldn’t help this; for she’s a wretched tub and has the misfortune of having a nincompoop for a commander besides!” Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy “Oh, you’re all a parcel of nincompoops!” exclaimed the captain quite roused at this. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea For, being free of him, Hazel stood her ground long enough to tell him that he was a cad, a coward, an ill-bred nincompoop, and other epithets grievous to masculine vanity. North of Fifty-Three I'm sick of all these nincompoops, Who weep through yards of verse, And all these sonneteering dupes Who whine and froth and curse. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) The other was ruddy, with a face as sharply cut as a girl's, and delicate features not fitting his long limbs—clearly he was no better than a nincompoop. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes He is just a nice, amiable, senseless nincompoop with a great deal of money and a tremendous amount of health. From the Housetops Let me laugh at you, then you can laugh at me; Then we'll josh together everything we see; Every one's a nincompoop to another's view; Laughter makes the sun shine! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) The man's voice was full of contempt for the nincompoop who couldn't use his head. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame I decided suddenly that the captain and crew must be a set of nincompoops, who had lost their heads, and, not knowing what to do, were unserenely doing nothing. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy Doubtless, with its increasing popularity, an annually increasing horde of nincompoops will employ the so-called "Post-Impressionist technique" for presenting insignificant patterns and recounting foolish anecdotes. Art 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 Company's captains. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India "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?" The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story I doubt whether the imagination of nincompoops and boards of management has ever devised anything more beautiful than this. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Why, what are you thinking of, you nincompoop? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 He might read a lesson to many a two-legged prig, were the bipedal nincompoop capable of learning it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 There are two kinds of sentimental warriors in this amorous world: the man and the nincompoop. The Younger Set The only sympathetic one I know is Beauty and the Beast; and even that is a mere begging of the question, for the Beast was a handsome young nincompoop of a Prince all the time! Jaffery The crafty nincompoop takes to his heels, scared with the idea that among a thousand such atoms of mortality her eye must have detected him. Twice Told Tales Or, some brainless nincompoop may, in his ignorance of her profession, cast aspersions on the general character and behaviour of all who keep shops. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 I was hectored and lectured in my own green-room, and made an absolute nincompoop on my own stage. Tales of a Traveller Several wags joined in, and all appeared, through the traveling nincompoop, to know all about my past and present, lapsing into a desultory harangue upon all men and things foreign. Across China on Foot Then the nincompoops who refused to attend to danger-signals saw that the beautiful colt which had spun over the same course like a greyhound only ten months before was unable to gallop at all. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Antonyms: slow, sluggish, clumsy, dilatory, unready, dull, heavy. nimble-fingered, a. dexterous. nimbus, n. halo, glory, aureola. nincompoop, n. Putnam's Word Book At moments he showed extraordinary talent as an engineer; at others he behaved like a nincompoop. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories In business everybody knew it except a few nincompoops. The Price of Love "You've let her go!" cried she, with an outraged gasp, implying that she had always suspected that she was married to a nincompoop, but not to such a nincompoop. Mr. Prohack He could divide the city council infallibly into wire-pullers, axe-grinders, vain nincompoops, honest mediocrities, and the handful who combined honesty with sagacity and sagacity with strength. The Roll-Call "I'd give a good deal for a decent excuse to fire that blooming nincompoop!" By Advice of Counsel She cheerily smoothed the bonnet-bows under the old lady's chin: "Now, chère, you know the assets are all you care for--even if with them you have to take a nincompoop for a grandson." Kincaid's Battery Mrs. Pullet—the wife of a gentleman farmer, whose great characteristic is a habit of sucking lozenges, and whom Tom Tulliver most justly sets down as a "nincompoop"—is almost sillier than Mrs. Tulliver. Famous Reviews But their talking put him out, and for a time he was certainly merely repeating abusive terms, "prancin' nincompoops" and the like, old terms and new. The War in the Air The universal monosyllable conveyed all his meaning, and not only told his opponent that he lied, but that he erred egregiously if he thought that any one was such a nincompoop as to believe him. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies, both in France and in England. The Scarlet Pimpernel The crafty nincompoop takes to his heels, scared with the idea that, among a thousand such atoms of mortality, her eye must have detected him. From Twice Told Tales "Being among a lot of nincompoop girls," said Alfred. Middlemarch Milton made a splendid hero out of the Devil, But a hero out of a nincompoop? Robert Browning: How to Know Him I always thought him a nincompoop—a silly Jew boy. Sanine The old boy turfed me out, Bertie, because he said I was a brainless nincompoop. My Man Jeeves Wouldn't some nincompoop like Forsyth be perhaps, after all, his best choice? The Cathedral "Such a set of nincompoops, like Mrs. Ballard's pupils walking two and two." Middlemarch We are making altogether too much account of a silly nincompoop. All-Wool Morrison The Lenox will take longer; they're a 'holier-than-thou' bunch of nincompoops, and it always horrifies them to have any man elected, no matter who he is. The Fighting Chance I can remember the time when you thought your quiet little Archie was a nincompoop--and quite right too. Archibald Malmaison The bits of dialogue and comment in which this grizzled nincompoop was an interlocutor, or of which he was the theme, are as amusing as a page from a comedy of Shakespeare. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Arthur Dayson, though a very good shorthand writer, and not without experience as a newspaper reporter and sub-editor, was a nincompoop. Hilda Lessways Doctor.—Man, you are talking like a nincompoop, and not like a man. So Runs the World The nincompoop can always be counted on to deify the commonplace. The Fighting Chance And now because a monstrous piece of good luck has made a Crichton of him, you begin to regret the nincompoop! Archibald Malmaison A nice set of nincompoops the race will develop into if such fools as that get their way! The Bars of Iron Mr. Prattle pronounced him a scoundrel; squire Savage said he was a nincompoop; and lord Martin was near sending him a challenge. Damon and Delia A Tale "To be sure, sir," said he, "they thought you as great a nincompoop as your squire-trimtram, like master, like man; but I hope as how you will give them a Rowland for their Oliver." The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves And at the same time I can puncture the most arrogant, the most cold-blooded, selfish, purse-proud, inflated nincompoop that ever sat at the head of a director's table. The Fighting Chance Am I to take it in, like a nincompoop, without asking myself whether it is possible or not? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 "Oh, I'm not such a nincompoop as you might suspect, madam," said I, testily, far from complimented. A Fool and His Money You are not quite the ingenuous nincompoop I took you for on the night of our first meeting. The Evil Shepherd Instead of finding themselves faced by spineless nincompoops, the rebels reeled before the sudden, well-timed tactics of real officers with eyes and ears and brains. Rung Ho! When I talk about books you think me a nincompoop.—That word used to amuse me so when I was a child. The Whirlpool Don't look so shocked for heaven's sake, Thelma,—you don't want your husband to be a regular nincompoop! Thelma A member of His Majesty's Government that everybody sets down as a nincompoop: don't forget him, Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House Then he left me and went away to her, whilst I said, 'By Allah, thou art right to twit me as nincompoop and pander!' The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 Anyhow, I shall be in a position to prove that I am not implicated in the murder of this unfortunate nincompoop.' The Grand Babylon Hotel When ye hear of a man a woman hez made, ye hears of a nincompoop. Jeff Briggs's Love Story "Thou shalt be captain of my archers in place of yon blundering nincompoop, whom thou hast overcome." Burlesques He said he liked a boy who was a boy and not an affected nincompoop. T. Tembarom The word is derived from a Latin word 'agere,' to do; and agents act up to their etymology, for they invariably DO the nincompoop that employs them, or deals with them, in any mortal way. A Simpleton You permitted yourself to treat your tutor thus, you nincompoop, and to dismiss him from his post? The Gambler She's got to stand washing clothes for those stuck-up nincompoops of fine ladies! Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland I have made a scurvy bargain: art a cozening knave, I doubt, as well as a nincompoop.' The Cloister and the Hearth Suppose that God is everywhere, as Spinoza says, or that all things proceed from God, as says St. Paul... the nincompoops, the door shuts or opens, but isn't the movement the same? The Magic Skin Robin, accustomed to James, no sooner heard the other man begin to read, than he began to curse and swear at him as an incapable nincompoop—an impertinent term that he was much addicted to. The Provost Every nincompoop in the land rushed into free print, floating their wizened little egos into the public eye on the surge of Brissenden’s greatness. Martin Eden |
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