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Meanings of inanely in anglès

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estúpidamente

Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.

estúpidamente
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Examples for "fatuously"
Examples for "fatuously"
1
She was growing accustomed to the gloom and saw him smile fatuously.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
2
The little girl smiled fatuously, as though I were paying her compliments.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
3
Even when he stood beside me, I merely stared at him fatuously.
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
4
He, himself, seemingly unsuspicious and fatuously trustful of demeanor, would observe them.
The Tyranny of Weakness
5
They had called her Rose, fatuously, as parents do their first-born girl.
Cheerful—By Request
Usage of inanely in anglès
1
Pierrot only repeated what he had said, and laughed and giggled inanely.
Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches
2
Old Horace was inanely eloquent for an hour over his pet theory.
The Sport of the Gods
3
Peggy panted inanely as if the word were of foreign tongue.
Joyce of the North Woods
4
The lips had fallen inanely apart with an absurd look of silly wonder.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
5
The audience consisted of female Pharisees and foolish women, smiling inanely.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
6
The mouth kept jabbering, inanely, and once emitted a half-swinish grunt.
The House on the Borderland
7
Lewis could hear Walter Harman chattering away inanely behind him.
The Reality Dysfunction
8
The story was so inanely stupid that Maurice was disgusted.
The Downfall
9
I didn't want to look sad, nor to grin inanely.
The Guardian
10
After a lifetime of service to the empire, Cullossax suddenly found himself smiling inanely.
The Wyrmling Horde
11
Why are you lying on the floor? She glanced at Tack, who waved inanely.
Nemesis
12
The wind worked Hadissa's mouth as if he jabbered inanely.
Sons of the Oak
13
Pierrot only stared at the sky and laughed inanely.
Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches
14
He gaped inanely at the cliff dwellers and feebly waved in thanks, trying to smile.
Genellan: planetfall
15
Instead, I remarked inanely that I was sorry to hear his father was not alive.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
16
The inanely amatory, with their languishing eyes, weary us.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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Translations for inanely
Inanely through the time