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We could always count on her to make a fatuous remark about the day's headlines.fatuous = unintelligent
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As she walked about the yellowing hillsides or worked at easy tasks, her lips were curled in a perpetual fatuous smile. (source)fatuous = without intelligence
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The messages I wrote on them were fatuous.† (source)
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He would sit at my knee, gazing up, fatuous and adoring and empty.† (source)
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Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.† (source)
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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)
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"Yes, ma'am," the specialist said, smiling fatuously.† (source)
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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.
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'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)
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Jean Louise heard herself repeating fatuously.† (source)
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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)
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He experienced a sudden anger at her: fatuous old witch with her mouth full of platitudes.† (source)
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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)
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"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)
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A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction.† (source)
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