fatuity

Example Sentences

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Their success must reveal the home game’s essential fatuity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The review in The New York Times said that the young tenor “again and again lifted the performance out of the depths of fatuity into which it relentlessly lapsed.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2018

He won a World Cup single-handedly, then plunged himself into the kind of excess and fatuity that only a national hero could feel he deserved.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2016

That’s a complaint of the most glorious fatuity.

From Forbes • Jul. 11, 2014

I learned that sagacity and quick wits are necessary in avoiding dangerous situations; and that fatuity and shortsightedness make one go around in circles, seemingly unaware of the many opportunities for escape.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane