Both Uses of
fatuous
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- "Don't you like the poor lonely bachelor?" he yammered in a fatuous way.†
Chpt 21 *
- 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.... But at night, thinking in bed, she protested, "I'm not a falsely accused innocent, though!†
Chpt 31
Definition:
without intelligence -- often implying a smugness or complacency