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(adjective) complacently or inanely foolish; silly

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fatuous
fatuity



lots of the things that exist in big cities are equally fatuous

—p.313 Sam Lipsyte and Christopher Sorrentino (305) by BOMB Magazine
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5 years ago


Through that gap came the corrupting flood of commodities. Here comes one now: it’s Apple launching a fatuous new iPhone minimally different from its predecessor.

—p.85 Part II: The 1920s (65) by Stuart Jeffries
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7 years, 3 months ago


With Gore it’s just a fatuous posture. With Noam, I’m sorry to say, it’s heartfelt. He just doesn’t like America.

obviously i disagree with him politically but this is still funny

—p.192 September 11 3: The days after the day after (189) by Martin Amis
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2 months ago


the fatuity and hypocrisy that lurked just beneath this romance of risk

—p.37 The Three Faces of Risk (31) by Steve Fraser
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3 years, 8 months ago


who asked me, with a fatuous (though unreturned) grin

—p.133 Snow (128) by James Lasdun
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4 years, 7 months ago


TRUMP’S CLAIMS to independence based on his private stash of billions were, of course, fatuous

—p.7 Party Foul (3) by n+1
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5 years ago


it seems fatuous that so many reviews upheld him as a reliable witness to the convulsions of third worldism

—p.166 The Painful Sum of Things (159) by Nikil Saval, Pankaj Mishra
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4 years, 9 months ago