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Meanings of fatuously in English

Spanish
estúpidamente

Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.

estúpidamente
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Examples for "inanely"
Examples for "inanely"
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...
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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