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Definition
without intelligence — often implying a smugness or complacency
- "Don't you like the poor lonely bachelor?" he yammered in a fatuous way.Chapter 21 (19% in)
- Vida had done her a service; had made all agonizing seem so fatuous that she ceased writhing and saw that her whole problem was simple as mutton: she was interested in Erik's aspiration; interest gave her a hesitating fondness for him; and the future would take care of the event....Chapter 31 (73% in)
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