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fatuous
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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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    '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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    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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    Jean Louise heard herself repeating 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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    The irritating thing was that in the racket of voices Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying, and was constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated.†  (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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    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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    I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.†  (source)
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    She welcomed the news that Ashley now had a home of his own, so she could remove herself from uncongenial surroundings and also from the distressing sight of her sister so fatuously happy with a man unworthy of her.†  (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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