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Meanings of fatuously in English

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estúpidamente

Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.

        estúpidamente
        Usage of fatuously in English
        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
        6
        The spider touched her sleeve, with George's fatuously smiling face behind it.
        McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
        7
        To be dowered so well and so fatuously to betray his dowry!
        This Freedom
        8
        I wonder how many Puritan parsons have preached fatuously upon those verses!
        Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
        9
        And when I fatuously agreed to this overcharge it merely increased her contempt.
        All the way
        10
        Edith, less fatuously, would have been content to cure Gordon Sterrett.
        The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
        11
        For a while at the beginning there had been, fatuously, flowers.
        The wandering fire
        12
        A proctor that he knew caught his eye and smiled fatuously.
        The Plastic Age
        13
        As to Aunt Jane, my state of mind was fatuously calm.
        Spanish Doubloons
        14
        You should be a fisher of men, he told her fatuously.
        The Highgrader
        15
        He bowed low, smiling fatuously, with his hand on his heart.
        Eleanor
        16
        He stood at the door of the cabin smiling fatuously.
        Captivity
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