All 3 Uses of
fatuous
in
Arrowsmith
- With fatuous beaming he described a night at Barney's; without any success whatever he tried to be funny; and when Madeline lectured him on the evils of liquor and the evils of association with immoral persons, he was for once relieved.†
Chpt 6 *
- They talked, tremendously, and he listened with fatuous enthusiasm to opinions which, had Leora produced them, he would have greeted with "That's a damn' silly remark!"†
Chpt 21
- They came to the market, a hundred stalls under a long corrugatediron roof, with stone pillars bearing the fatuous names of the commissioners who had built it—by voting bonds for the building.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(fatuous) without intelligence -- often implying a smugness or complacency