adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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fatuous speeches
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hesitating, Eline pushed open the door, it seemed fatuous to knock, a foolish act of politeness in the circumstances.
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Let the fatuous sun shine by itself and let's head for the moon.
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Made some fatuous comment about using the smaller car.
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Others ask them fatuous questions such as whether beds are comfortable or whether they like their teachers.
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The first assumption of the Census Bureau, therefore, must be viewed as fatuous at worst, naive at best.