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Meanings of fatuous in English

Devoid of intelligence.

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Examples for "mindless"
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The Kiint, for instance, cloned mindless bodies to house their lost souls.
The Naked God
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I felt my mindless need for her slacken and began to understand.
The Wise Man’s Fear
3
And this mindless munching is possibly at wrong times of the day.
News.com.au
4
The whole production remains good campy fun -harmless though not mindless.
Reuters
5
Within minutes, Cathy became mindless, her entire being centered on achieving pleasure.
Silent killer
1
Our Congress is inane at the moment and hard to work with.
The Guardian
2
Allowing the inane commentary of vested interests to clog up comment facilities.
The Irish Times
3
His Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century are especially inane.
The Guardian
4
Camus has a lot to be responsible for with his inane ramblings.
The Irish Times
5
Some inane reply forced its way through the press of unuttered avowals.
David Malcolm
1
The idea was to refute Soviet claims that America was culturally vacuous.
BBC
2
The selfish and egoistical life breeds always the vapid and vacuous heart.
Hints for Lovers
3
The newly hired girl wreathed her flabby face in a vacuous smile.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
4
He leered across the aisle familiarly and with a vacuous smile inquired:
The Long Chance
5
Now. The veiled, vacuous look passed and Bourne reached for the phone.
The bourne ultimatum
1
Despite having actual experience in government, the others were just as asinine.
Ebony
2
And in saying it poor Stuyvesant realized it was an asinine thing.
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
3
Their art form was asinine, covertly conservative and far too popular.
The Guardian
4
I don't wish to be offensive, but I think it's asinine.
Secret Sanction
5
After making this rather asinine statement Hockey did admit, it's expensive.
The Guardian
Usage of fatuous in English
1
The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous; in sculpture, it is ugly.
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observ...
2
For the time being resistance was fatuous, and it accepted the inevitable.
Where the Trail Divides
3
Never has a great democracy's fate hung on so fatuous a figure.
The Irish Times
4
His utterances were fatuous; mere exhortations to the country not to worry.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
5
The reference to VE Day manages to be both fatuous and offensive.
The Guardian
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Even temporarily calling off the wonderful and completely fatuous hunt for wockets.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
7
Arnold Jacks differed widely from the common type of fatuous young man.
The Crown of Life
8
That will be Sam Merton -the faithful but rather fatuous Sam.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
9
A fatuous reflection, perhaps; yet every moment's observation seemed to confirm it.
The Odd Women
10
He surprised himself smiling with a fatuous indulgence of his enjoyable fancies.
Stolen Treasure
11
Carter was too fatuous at times, and at other times too restrained.
The Titan
12
They were never significant, practical men who clung to these fatuous ideals.
The Financier: A Novel
13
He recognized only his own weakness of the infatuated lover's fatuous timidity.
The Grain of Dust: A Novel
14
His eyes, narrow and seemingly colorless, regarded her with a fatuous complacency.
Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories
15
Upon such a basis, or lack of basis, all discussion becomes fatuous.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
16
I haven't known distinguished men on whom I could pass fatuous remarks.
A Personal Record
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