fatuous
adjective
fatuousness
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a word derived from
fatuous.
Example Sentences
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An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
In “Spectacular” he rescues a middling segment called “Downtown Addy’s,” a “Downton Abbey” sendup in which Harlem Renaissance figures like Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston and Adelaide Hall gossip and declaim with mock-aristocratic fatuousness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
The sheer fatuousness of Johnson’s speech, the absence of any discernible values, or a backbone to put behind them, raises in me an unfathomable, hot, eye-pricking sense of having been betrayed.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2016
Travolta plays Shapiro as an Easter Island head of fatuousness, with Spock eyebrows and pursed lips, trailing famous names like bread crumbs.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
I never realized the full immensity of Clithering’s fatuousness until he uttered that mangled quotation from Macbeth in the tone of an old-fashioned tragedian.
From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham
