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fatuity
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synonyms: insipience ???
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Definition:stupidity
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The young Italian raised her eyes to the marquis; there was in the features of the latter something so noble, so seductive, that it was very easy for him to obtain pardon for his audacity; accustomed to triumph, he had trespassed through habit and not through fatuity, and Julia's resistance astonished, but did not anger him.
Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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Not only, however, is the fatuity of Napoleon depicted— his ill-temper, his peccadillos of conduct— but Tolstóy attacks him at his central point— his faith in himself.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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there was Mrs. Hall saying his dog didn't have no business to bite her guests; there was Huxter, the general dealer from over the road, interrogative; and Sandy Wadgers from the forge, judicial; besides women and children, all of them saying fatuities: "Wouldn't let en bite me, I knows"; "'Tasn't right have such dargs"; "Whad 'e bite 'n for, then?" and so forth.
H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.
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in proust1, lesMis, dec2, hbStowe, bronteSis, cDickens, eWharton, georgeEliot, aBierce, henryJames, jamesJoyce .
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