Wearing a nametag is an extremely fatuous mistake for a bank robber to make. From LearnThat.org.
I'm surprised that when I looked up the word fatuous in the dictionary, your name and picture weren't next to it. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary Up By 18 Points In Pennsylvania Primary] Reference
The Democratic Alliance dismissed the adverts as "fatuous". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Or is all this just another "fatuous" observation, by your lights?. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary Up 8 Points In Texas Primary] Reference
Secondly, I am not at all sure anyone would know what you mean by 'fatuous'. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Oh yea, the Bean was a big genius cause he used words like "fatuous" and "differentially.". From Wordnik.com. [County Commission Drops Ball On Mike Allen] Reference
A White House aide says it is "fatuous" to say the Leahy photo forced the White House to capitulate. From Wordnik.com. [A NEW WINDOW ON THE WAR ROOM] Reference
It's somehow comforting to know that, for all the progress humanity has made, we're still capable of the same kind of fatuous nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: October 2005 Archives] Reference
The word fatuous has a suggestible: fat. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Schildknecht, on the other hand, says the concept is 'fatuous'. From Wordnik.com. [Decanter News] Reference
It's that kind of fatuous, spoiled-brat ignorance that made Auschwitz possible. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
Ms Harman says it is "fatuous" to ask her to suggest what the prime minister will say at his appearance. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Dawkins also poked fun at the "fatuous" request in capital letters in the middle of the Foundation's announcement of Thursday's event. From Wordnik.com. [The Freethinker] Reference
I may be fatuous, but it's required by the canon. From Wordnik.com. [Am I Blanche DuBois] Reference
With unconscious stupidity we continue the fatuous practice. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
Some of Gingrich's hundreds of ideas are fresh, some fatuous. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, What's The Big Idea?] Reference
His smile was dry and full of cunning, but his laugh was fatuous. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Upon such a basis, or lack of basis, all discussion becomes fatuous. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Father Murphy -- why doesn't he just swat down Melissa's fatuous arguments?. From Wordnik.com. [Theater review: 'The Savannah Disputation' at Olney Theatre Center] Reference
It is fatuous to ignore this, and to make a fool's paradise of our democracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
The last 12 months brought headlines ranging from the frightening to the fatuous. From Wordnik.com. [The Top Stories Of 2002] Reference
The British, who got the new season in September, called it "absolutely fatuous" and worse. From Wordnik.com. [Raise A Glass For 'Ab Fab'] Reference
Only I, however, seem to be on the receiving end of so much hilariously fatuous propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Publicity] Reference
If he be a little less than perfectly sincere he runs risk of being pretentious, fatuous even. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference
The sentimentality of hatred is uglier and more fatuous than the sentimentality of brotherhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
An extreme example of this is Dryden's fatuous reference to the Earl of Mulgrave's translation of Ovid. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
For this almost fatuous belief in their own security these gallant soldiers were destined to pay heavily. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
It was fatuous to suggest, as the commissioner did, that baseball had pretty much licked its steroids problem. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Nomar and the S Word] Reference
He looks uncomfortable and moves stiffly, and the fatuous smile that appears and disappears at random is unnerving. From Wordnik.com. [A Mouse King, A Boy Prince--And A Cash Cow] Reference
What, then, could be more fatuous than such a view as the following, expressed recently by a well-known Socialist. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
He was rather a fatuous boy, with round, innocent eyes, easily opening at tales of marvel, and a temptation to a liar. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
'So you are enjoying yourself,' said Peter at last -- Peter who never made fatuous conversational remarks of this sort. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
It is fatuous to say that just because the Springboks have had a disappointing year that they will be also-rans at the World Cup. From Wordnik.com. [Jake White's interference is doing fallen South Africa few favours] Reference
He was a great instrumentalist as well as composer, and although many jazz box sets are fatuous, this one is absolutely essential. From Wordnik.com. [Is Jazz Back?] Reference
The host's eyes were rounded with astonishment, and he was staring from one of his guests to the other with an air of fatuous wonder. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
In most of the rest of the world, this is fatuous: American leadership is a fact of life, like the sun rising in the east each morning. From Wordnik.com. [Going Home] Reference
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