Placing beneath a pillow was fatuously inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
But words are fatuously inadequate and convey little. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
You employ meaningless phrases as fatuously as the mayor. From Wordnik.com. [McGinn Plans Second Housing Meeting; Still No Word on Fate of Housing Office « PubliCola] Reference
Edith, less fatuously, would have been content to cure Gordon. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
‘Either on horses or the Stock Exchange,’ he said fatuously. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
It was a fatuously amateur exercise in attempted damage control. From Wordnik.com. [usaf video clip of pakistan strike] Reference
Commenters at my place have asked, fatuously, what about the ACLU?. From Wordnik.com. [It's a simple principle, really.] Reference
"Wal -- not so's ye'd notice it," Walky replied, grinning fatuously. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Which makes me fatuously smile ... it's a bit like watching Jeopardy. From Wordnik.com. [Fun ...] Reference
"I can see that," the Rowan replied, smiling fatuously at the sleeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowan]
"That's the difference between us and them, child," he said fatuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
Ganging up on my poor son? asked Jeff, fatuously smiling down at Jeran. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowan]
'Thanks,' I said, trying not to smile fatuously and scarcely succeeding. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
Rarely can the anti-historical drive of 'heritage' have been so fatuously illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference
His advisers fatuously urged him to stress his humble origins in a speech on immigration. From Wordnik.com. [Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh] Reference
He famously -- and fatuously -- replied, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Sigman: Psychotic Reaction] Reference
It was getting dusk as we had to struggle up the rough gulch we had so fatuously descended. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
He looks hurt if you ask him to do anything else except perhaps to trail fatuously after you. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
"I see you are ready," he observed fatuously, striking the personal note again, which she resented. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
After the receiver was back on the hook, Tracy sat for a moment smiling fatuously at the telephone. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Can Be Fun]
The Maoists are never willing to do this because of the nature of politics they cling fatuously to. From Wordnik.com. [CPI(Marxist) criticism of the Revolutionary Maoists / Naxalites /CPI(Maoist)] Reference
The latter was actively promoting evil; the former, one must assume, is fatuously trying to explain it away. From Wordnik.com. [Not Impotent After All] Reference
But there I go, doing it myself, and it is just as fatuously iridescent when I do it as when another guy does. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
This statement does not mean, as is sometimes fatuously claimed, that we should do nothing to combat terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [Lock 'Em Up] Reference
"Do you know how that little sleeping princess was awakened by her prince?" he murmured fatuously, bending closer. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
Take the invisible, unused Sword of Damocles they still fatuously insist hangs over their heads, and make it real. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: When Corporate Pirates Commit Class Economic Rape] Reference
Dalton was used to girls who lounged or who hung fatuously on his words, as if they had set themselves to please him. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Now "color" alone fatuously gives one license, entree and advantage, even insulation from normal standards and scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From The Past] Reference
Hiding his disdain, he smiled fatuously while accepting his own screen from two of the little women who had produced it. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdoms of Light]
So I said nothing, but foolishly pushed the little pebbles aside with my stick, fatuously waiting for the subject to pass. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
His fatuously fabulous dialogue is as stylized as David Mamet's, and sounds just as flat and writerly when delivered badly. From Wordnik.com. [Tarantino Is Undead] Reference
Polonius fatuously concludes that Hamlet is suffering from love-madness (since Polonius knew that malady in his youth, too). From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
What appears to be a commercial-ended product scowls at its own small coterie of advisors and grins fatuously at all the end-users. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
Too often it equips his decisions with good rather than real reasons, holding out a mirror in which he fatuously sees his own face. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Twenty Foresight: Reviews of Old Books on Indochina] Reference
But you -- open-eyed, knowing everything -- forewarned and forearmed, -- walk fatuously to your doom as one sheep follows another over. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
It's not, as Obama fatuously suggested, because of oil company lobbying but because it is very portable, energy-dense and easy to use. From Wordnik.com. [Obama and the vision thing] Reference
Narayan shows him floundering, resorting fatuously to half-remembered bits and pieces of other people's aggressive anti-British rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Narayan] Reference
“Did you,” Alleyn asked, fatuously addressing himself to the cat, “did you have fresh fissy for your supper last night, my angel?”. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
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