Unquestionably after all, how many people from a comprehensive to use the word "fatuity" in such a fluent manner?. From Wordnik.com. [DK's schooldays...] Reference
From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
Grandisonian airs marked with a suspicion of fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
Barry hated himself for his fatuity as he put the question. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
You do not understand, "she sneered," so gross is your fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
He half-raised his hands, as if to imply the fatuity of the question. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
"So Festus thought of Paul," returned my poor comrade, with hopeless fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
I wonder what event will underscore the fatuity of this award. stanley Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
That should I would have thought have alerted you to the fatuity of this approach. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And mainstream media pundits such as David Brooks are trying to normalize such fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: Huckabee: Immigrants are Taking Jobs Away from Aborted Fetuses] Reference
I undoubtedly impressed my own sense of its fatuity on every audience to which I gave it. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
An exclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement of the sensibilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
Love was a word seldom used except by politicians and by them only in moments of pure fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Health, genius, honour are the words inscribed on some; on others are disease, fatuity, and infamy. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
What a good thing it would be if this dreadful organization of humbug and fatuity was actually removed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2003] Reference
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
The fond fatuity with which he had welcomed that starry-eyed little creature had been rudely overthrown. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Finally, a plea for a better quality of comment: your blend of righteous indignation and fatuity is wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It appears that a perfect storm of folly in finance has mutated into a perfect storm of fatuity in governance. From Wordnik.com. [Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of the Great Giveaway] Reference
So Lucille sang from musical height to height and her husband sped from depth to depth in the seas of human fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
So much in earnest was the speaker that he did not realize the fatuity of his words till they were out of his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
The French at Newport were no longer the frivolous race, presumptuous, noisy, full of fatuity, they were reputed to be. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
Swann remained silent as a deaf-mute which was in a way a confirmation of what she had said, and a proof of his own fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
Bavaria himself, had the fatuity as late as last week to talk about the new territory that Germany would annex as a result of the war!. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
But they are mere islets in the tsunami of falsities, fatuity, and inanities that constitutes the bulk of User Generated Content (UGC). From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the Internet's Founding Myths] Reference
What would be thought of the moral conduct of the parent who should voluntarily transmit disease, or fatuity, or deformity to his offspring?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
The Duchess had no daughter, and was devoted to her with the blind fatuity with which ladies of rank at times will invest themselves in a caprice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
Morgan seemed to interpose in the manner of throwing out his hand, a gesture speaking of the fatuity and his unwillingness to set himself to the task. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Because, if we don't give them a chance to expose the fatuity of their policies, protest voters may well create an almighty mess at the general election. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
I say, "!", but really, sub-Ashmorian stylistic redunancies can't do justice to the fatuity, ignorance and incomprehension wrapped up quite so tightly in that aside. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
And it is desirable to prove by definitions that this conduct of his ought not to be called imprudence, or accident, or necessity, but indolence, indifference, or fatuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.