Both Uses of
fatuous
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- She was one of the small ones of the earth; she had not been born to honours; she knew the world too well to nourish fatuous illusions on the article of her own place in it.†
Chpt 19 *
- Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself might have been a better man if he had spent less of his life there.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
without intelligence -- often implying a smugness or complacency