fatuitous
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Entering into its emptiness, frivolity, and falsehood, with a spirit inspired by scorn and impatience, I took my revenge on this "fat," by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
On such theistic principles all sin must be simply defect, and all defect must be absolutely fatuitous.'
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
If, in spite of all these discouragements, those powers were mad or fatuitous enough to meditate such an enterprise, have they any reason to believe that it could succeed?
From Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France by William Wirt
Neither did she shed a single tear, but the vacant light of her eyes had stamped a fatuitous expression on her features that was melancholy and heartbreaking beyond all power of language to describe.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
The thought of her treachery and of his own fatuitous vanity—the reflection that he had been so blind in his self-conceit that she had led him to his ruin, stung him to the quick.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
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