Example Sentences

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But the image of Bernstein as a wealthy, fatuously do-gooding liberal was irresistible to many.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

The Telegraph's Robbie Collin awarded it one star, calling it a "fatuously graphic" and "colossally gormless" series, adding that it contained the "worst dialogue" of the year.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2023

The problem is common: how to frame collective acts — that which we fatuously scoot behind the aegis of the Art of Living — as capital-A Art.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2022

One carries a hatbox, another a baguette, and the fatuously chic way they present their faces and swerve their hips to the beat is superlatively witty.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2015

“That is despicably, fatuously, ignorantly weak of you, Gary Drake.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell