fatuous
adjective
fatuously
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a word derived from
fatuous.
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
So when Ginny meets lifeguard Mickey, who fatuously tells us "the dramatist in me sensed she was in some kind of trouble," it's inevitable that even more trouble is in the offing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
What he invented, in “A Modest Proposal,” was not just that fatuously self-satisfied narrative voice, but the whole idea of a counterfactual work of nonfiction.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2014
“That is despicably, fatuously, ignorantly weak of you, Gary Drake.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
