fatuous
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Fatuous American journalists — competitors — but both besotted with the idea of themselves as “war correspondents.”
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2014
Fatuous, clichéd or selective depictions of Bangkok by visiting filmmakers are so commonplace that foreign residents quickly stop registering them.
From Time • Jun. 20, 2011
"Fatuous bunkum . . . that would make the angels puke." cried James Cameron in the News Chronicle.
From Time Magazine Archive
H. G. Wells in The Fate of Man speaks of the "Fatuous Twenties" and the "Frightened Thirties."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fatuous Storri; he should never have looked for compliment or concession or snobbish adulation in a plain lend-and-borrow traffic of dollars and cents!
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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