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fatuous
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  • He would sit at my knee, gazing up, fatuous and adoring and empty.†  (source)
  • Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.†  (source)
  • We were good mimics, both of us, and often conducted entire conversations in other people's voices: dumb newscasters, whiny girls, wheedling and fatuous teachers.†  (source)
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  • Now, from the fatuous vantage of her office in exile, Annie reflected on such deeds and on the losses within her that had prompted them.†  (source)
  • "Yes, ma'am," the specialist said, smiling fatuously.†  (source)
  • Simon said, very much hoping that she wouldn't put down the fatuousness of the question to the fact that he was stalling for time.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • 'They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous, decadence whose last refuge is self-ridicule, a mannered helplessness.†  (source)
  • Jean Louise heard herself repeating fatuously.†  (source)
  • He did not even have to be told in words that he had surely found the lost Lucas Burch; it seemed to him now that only crassest fatuousness and imbecility should have kept unaware.†  (source)
  • He experienced a sudden anger at her: fatuous old witch with her mouth full of platitudes.†  (source)
  • He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and a voice that had been bawling in my ears, incessantly, fatuously, for days beyond number, had been suddenly cut short; an immense silence followed, empty at first, but gradually, as my outraged sense regained authority, full of a multitude of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds: for he had spoken a name that was so familiar to me, a conjuror's name of such ancient power, that, at its mere sound, the phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight.†  (source)
  • "Let me only get there," he had said with the fatuousness of Crusoe over his big boat, "and the rest is but a matter of time and energy."†  (source)
  • A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction.†  (source)
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