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fatuous
/ ˈfætjʊəs /
adjective
- complacently or inanely foolish
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Derived Forms
- ˈfatuously, adverb
- ˈfatuousness, noun
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Other Words From
- fat·u·ous·ly adverb
- fat·u·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fatuous1
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Example Sentences
On the face of it moving the talent to Soho can seem fatuous.
During one break in the filming, he was a fatuous British director, “exploring the essence of what we call cinema!”
And “alkalinizing” someone in an attempt to improve their health is simple-minded, fatuous, and dangerous.
I also won't repeat, or defend him against, all the fatuous charges leveled against him.
"They obliterated it with some fatuous piece of commentary about something else," Gough told the Guardian.
Each day he was sending serenely confident telegrams to Calcutta and receiving equally reassuring ones from a fatuous Viceroy.
If he be a little less than perfectly sincere he runs risk of being pretentious, fatuous even.
It was his great merit that at these moments, and in the presence of other people, he betrayed no fatuous emotion.
From its fatuous dream the nation was awakened by the noise of arms, the shrieks of women and the red glare of burning cities.
Mrs. Makely was one of those fatuous women whose eagerness to make a point excludes the consideration even of their own advantage.
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