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fatuous
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synonyms: insensate, vacuous, insipient, leather-headed ???
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Definition:silly and stupid
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Percy: We could have the Morris dancers, My Lord.
Blackadder: Now look, we are not that desperate! Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man -- forty effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they've just wiped their noses on. How it's still going on in this day and age, I'll never know.
BBC. Blackadder Season 1, episode 2: Born to be King
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Maude: Lord, you can imagine where [the porno film Logjammin'] goes from here.
dude: He fixes the cable?
Maude: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Joel and Ethan Coen. The Big Lebowski (1998)
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I am convinced that men who are getting fat are generally like that. For every added pound an added excuse, for each multiplying inch at the waistline a new plea in abatement to be set up in the mind. I see the truth of it now. When you start getting fat you start getting fatuous.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. One Third Off
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BUT WORSE than having to be civil to the fatuous Mr. Tasbrough was keeping his mouth shut when, toward the end of June, a newspaperman at Battington, Vermont, was suddenly arrested as editor of Vermont Vigilance and author of all the pamphlets by Doremus and Lorinda.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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With a fatuity hardly more credible than creditable, the Lalugwumps, as they call themselves, deny the immortality of the soul. In all my stay in their country I found only one person who believed in a life “beyond the grave,” as we should say, though as the Lalugwumps are cannibals they would say “beyond the stomach.”
Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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The Tolstóyan viewpoint is evidenced even in the creation of such minor personages as the fatuous Berg who, simply because he is himself, is convinced that everything he does is right.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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