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Definition

without intelligence — often implying a smugness or complacency

We could always count on her to make a fatuous remark about the day's headlines.

fatuous = unintelligent

The blogger is not wholly fatuous.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
Then he turned his own rather fatuous face to the company.
Chesterton, Gilbert K. -- The Wisdom Of Father Brown
As she walked about the yellowing hillsides or worked at easy tasks, her lips were curled in a perpetual fatuous smile.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

fatuous = without intelligence

We sat about that big round table as if assembled for a conference and looked at each other in a sort of fatuous consternation.
Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
"I am, of course, a mere student," said I, with a fatuous smile, "hardly more, I might say, than an earnest inquirer."
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Lost World
In fetters of false values and fatuous words
Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
"Of course, you will dispute the will," she remarked, fatuously, to Catherine.
Henry James -- Washington Square
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.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
This was more exciting, the inner images it evoked more definite, and the singers' expressions became fatuous and languid.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
...Illusions of reality represented in this fatuous comedy of life that never ends, nor can ever end!
Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters in Search of an Author
A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Apart from your obscene brutality, mon general, you are a fatuous, hollow bore, a cruel joke on your people!
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
I don't want to be fatuous, but I think it is very possible."
Henry James -- The American
Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring fatuous and hollow.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
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.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Would you ever allow a book of evolutionary psychology applied to art not to be entirely fatuous?
Adam Gopnik -- Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories?
"Don't you like the poor lonely bachelor?" he yammered in a fatuous way.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
And in fatuous recollection a Galician peasants' saying came back to her: I am crawling into his ear.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
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.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels

(Editor's note: 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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