Thesaurus / fatuous
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Surely Americans, who are by our own fatuous self-definition fundamentally decent, would never attempt the unthinkable, no matter how angry.
THE CAPITOL MOB IMAGES SHOULDN’T SURPRISE YOU. OPEN INSURRECTION WAS ALWAYS WHERE WE WERE HEADED.PHILIP KENNICOTTJANUARY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POSTEach day he was sending serenely confident telegrams to Calcutta and receiving equally reassuring ones from a fatuous Viceroy.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYIf he be a little less than perfectly sincere he runs risk of being pretentious, fatuous even.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 147, NOVEMBER 4, 1914VARIOUSIt was his great merit that at these moments, and in the presence of other people, he betrayed no fatuous emotion.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRFrom its fatuous dream the nation was awakened by the noise of arms, the shrieks of women and the red glare of burning cities.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEMrs. Makely was one of those fatuous women whose eagerness to make a point excludes the consideration even of their own advantage.
A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA: ROMANCEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSWhat Olcott said—aloud—was something fatuous and commonplace touching on the state of the weather.
THOSE TIMES AND THESEIRVIN S. COBBThe fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners.
COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANSMARTIN LUTHERIt is impossible, fatuous in fact, to ignore or even overlook the basic importance of physical environment.
ISLAM HER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUEARTHUR GLYN LEONARDThen he kissed her faintly smiling lips with the fatuous idea that the final word as to wedding finery had been said.
AND SO THEY WERE MARRIEDFLORENCE MORSE KINGSLEYWORDS RELATED TO FATUOUS
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