fatuity

Example Sentences

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Their success must reveal the home game’s essential fatuity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

If we were interested in historical truth, it would be easy to demonstrate the utter fatuity of this declaration.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2015

That’s a complaint of the most glorious fatuity.

From Forbes • Jul. 11, 2014

Instead of telling us about some fatuity in the world around us, she recalls her own youth in the ’50s and ’60s and her search for the grand philosophical truths about life itself.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2014

I learned that sagacity and quick wits are necessary in avoiding dangerous situations; and that fatuity and shortsightedness make one go around in circles, seemingly unaware of the many opportunities for escape.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane