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fatuous
/ˈfæ.tʃu.əs/
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What does fatuous mean?
adjective
- Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
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The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners.
“She says we will make her fortune. I don’t want to be fatuous, but I think it is very possible.”
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He teetered along with a mincing up and down step, every movement, and the expression of his face displaying a fatuous self-satisfaction.
The ignorance and the fatuous conceit which lay behind her grimacing mask of slang and ridicule humiliated him so deeply that he became absolutely reckless.
The object of these publica- tions is chiefly to puff up doubtful securities, in the hope that some fatuous speculator may be tempted to buy.