fatuity
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To drive home the Lázárs’ fatuity, Mr. Biedermann coats them in lurid layers of shame and degradation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Cast and crew alike must act badly well, a task achieved with particular cringing charm by Mr. Hearn, who flashes his upper teeth as if they were a badge of fatuity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2017
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
A thread of fraudulence enters Mr. Gutjahr’s story with the self-help fatuities of Helena Blavatsky and L. Ron Hubbard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But belief often requires a leap of faith, or in this case, a set of elisions, some false equivalencies, and a few fatuities, all of which make this book hopelessly muddled.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023
His personal story was the stuff of presidents but when asked what he wanted for the country, he struggled - responding with vague fatuities and empty slogans.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2021
The world that asteroid 2011GV1 has made is one in which all our fatuities are revealed.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2012
He went, slipping as it were unnoticeably away, with 'Good-bye' unemphasised, half ashamed, sandwiched between fatuities about the pipe and comments on the future.
From Non-combatants and Others by Dame Rose Macaulay
