nincompoop

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.

"Being among a lot of nincompoop girls," said Alfred.

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.

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.

On his lap lay the big fiddle, at which he was scraping, out of all time and tune, with both hands, making a great show, the nincompoop! of playing "Judy O'Flannagan and Paddy O'Rafferty."

You permitted yourself to treat your tutor thus, you nincompoop, and to dismiss him from his post?

So that Tom was not without strong reasons when, in confidential talk with a chum, he had described uncle Pullet as a nincompoop, taking care at the same time to observe that he was a very "rich fellow."

Rawdon Crawley paid scarcely any attention to Dobbin, looking upon him as a good-natured nincompoop and under-bred City man.

You are not day dreamers, you are the ones who are dull and dumb, led by a bunch of nincompoops.

But Filipinos should not despair, they are in good company: The United States of America, the 'greatest' democratic government on this planet, has its own nincompoops in Congress.

We are not nincompoops. We are not a group of stupid people."

To take part in the competition, simply write a 1000-1500 word story about how development and operations teams were disjointed, inconsistent nincompoops, but thanks to the miracle of DevOps, came together and worked as a team.