[ UK /fˈæt‍ʃuːəs/ ]
[ US /ˈfætʃəwəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely silly or stupid
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How To Use fatuous In A Sentence

  • No matter how anodyne, fatuous, sensible or irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times
  • The other reason cuts on this scale have been possible is that the government has hidden behind Darling's tax increases, arguing fatuously that it should receive credit for keeping them in place. Tax cuts for high earners make no sense – give them to those on low incomes
  • My fatuous school blazer was stripped from my shoulders and replaced with a leather waistcoat. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
  • It's not, as Obama fatuously suggested, because of oil company lobbying but because it is very portable, energy-dense and easy to use. Obama and the vision thing
  • One has to pity the poor flacks who have to defend a corporate officer's speech characterized not just by US-bashing but by sheer fatuousness.
  • Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers.
  • I shall sing a Song of the Sword, too, should the sword "thrust through the fatuous, thrust through the fungous brood. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
  • The Chief was left speechless by this fatuous remark.
  • I was just thinking, if he did mean those statements as they sound, what a fatuous ninnyhammer that would make him! Speaking as one old fart to another
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