What's the difference between dunderhead and nincompoop?

Dunderhead


Definition:

  • (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But then, if centuries of privileged breeding and education produce dunderheads and philistines, that proves talent is genetically random, not inherited.
  • (2) He cracks not one but two lame jokes and comes across as a dunderhead.
  • (3) The lesson is obvious – to everyone except the dunderheads administering public policy in Britain.
  • (4) I still count myself as a complete dunderhead when it comes to understanding it, and I have some form in that area.
  • (5) Not intentionally: most of the dunderheads reporting the G20 summit that took place over the weekend really do believe that he proposed and founded the International Monetary Fund.
  • (6) I’m not so interested any more in those parts that I already played.” This, I must admit, is tragic news to me, fan as I am of the entire, seething menagerie of dicks, douchebags, dimwits and dunderheads he has created in the decade or more since the debut of Arrested Development .

Nincompoop


Definition:

  • (n.) A fool; a silly or stupid person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then Chase fell down on his ass and acted like a complete nincompoop because in real life Ford was a tiny bit clumsy .
  • (2) The former Labour prime minister refused to respond to the Commons justice select committee which wanted to question Blair on how he could describe himself in his autobiography as a "nincompoop" for introducing the legislation which he now regarded as "antithetical to sensible government".
  • (3) I hereby resign from whatever contest of cultural significance these keyboard-bothering nincompoops think they're conducting.
  • (4) "It was utterly undermining of sensible government," he wrote, adding that he had been a "naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop" for introducing the original legislation.
  • (5) Blair later berated himself as “a naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop” for introducing it.

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