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Definition of Nincompoops
1. nincompoop [n] - See also: nincompoop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nincompoops
Literary usage of Nincompoops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... nincompoops, and other unsavoury appellations, as ever the cake-bakers of
Lerne cast in the teeth of King ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1849)
"... beside myself, seeing these nincompoops depicted on this wall opposite me;
for certainly they are the greatest nincompoops that ever I beheld ; and, ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1895)
"The wagons will come next, and I shall watch women in the most bewitchingly absurd
dresses for dust and driving ; and nincompoops who sit up high like ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1906)
"That turn o' the head brought the two nincompoops at her elbow into her ...
They hardly cracked a smile as they man-handled the two poor nincompoops and ..."
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