Примеры употребления для NINCOMPOOPS
1. All this leads me to conclude –– Ed, you sly devil, you –– that Klein set out to expose the right wing for the gullible nincompoops they are.
2. This genial mockery of the Royal Navy, written in 1878 at the height of empire, could afford to lampoon its sea forces as effete nincompoops preoccupied with moony romance and mistaken identities.
3. He is so suffused with his own sense of righteousness that he cannot imagine his laws being abused –– not by him, certainly, and not by his chummy group of nicknamed nincompoops, either.
4. When Harold Wilson cautiously awarded the MBE to the Beatles, a dozen medal–holders, including a wartime RAF hero, sent theirs back, and a Canadian politican said he didnt want an honour that put him on the same level with vulgar nincompoops.
5. But when there is no threat, as I judged there not to be on this occasion, I don‘t think you should blindly adhere to rules set by bureaucratic nincompoops." Flight deck visits had not been allowed on public charter planes since September 11.