SIMMONS: But it is fortuitous and fatuitous that it came out at the right time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2008] Reference
Entering into its emptiness, frivolity, and falsehood, with a spirit inspired by scorn and impatience, I took my revenge on this “fat,” by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
If, in spite of all these discouragements, those powers were mad or fatuitous enough to meditate such an enterprise, have they any reason to believe that it could succeed?. From Wordnik.com. [Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France] Reference
Entering into its emptiness, frivolity, and falsehood, with a spirit inspired by scorn and impatience, I took my revenge on this "fat," by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Neither did she shed a single tear, but the vacant light of her eyes had stamped a fatuitous expression on her features that was melancholy and heartbreaking beyond all power of language to describe. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Certainly the present attempts to discover that law, however fatuitous they may seem to many, are neither illogical, nor, judging by the impetus already given to biology, or the science of life, labor altogether spent in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
The coincidences of prophecy are not more remarkable than those of star-telling; and Dryden and the author I have referred to were probably both captivated into belief by some fatuitous realization of their horoscopic predictions. From Wordnik.com. [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference
Now that the race of man had lost in fact all distinction of rank, this pride was doubly fatuitous; now that we felt a kindred, fraternal nature with all who bore the stamp of humanity, this angry reminiscence of times for ever gone, was worse than foolish. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
• fatuitous. From Wordnik.com. [Boise Weekly] Reference
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