fatuity

How to use fatuity in a sentence

• I might add that at last they become terrible, and disgust every one by their fatuity and nonsense.

  The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre | Jean de La Bruyre

• With a fatuity hardly more credible than creditable, the Lalugwumps, as they call themselves, deny the immortality of the soul.

  The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose Bierce

• Troy remembered her dissertations on the steamer, and winced at a fresh display of such fatuity in such a scene.

  The Marne | Edith Wharton

• With singular fatuity none of the officers or seamen were armed, although the ship was well provided with weapons.

  South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend Brady

• "Oh, you needn't fear; you shan't lose me," the girl replied with charming gross fatuity.

  The Tragic Muse | Henry James