fatuity
IPA: fɑtˈuɪti
noun
- Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
- Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
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Examples of "fatuity" in Sentences
- EU Referendum: The ultimate in fatuity? skip to main | skip to sidebar
- Unquestionably after all, how many people from a comprehensive to use the word "fatuity" in such a fluent manner?
- From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan.
- This kind of fatuity is a combination of petty authoritarianism as encouraged by the socialists in Westmonster and the paedogeddon alarmism evident in the kind of red-tops that council workers read.
- In another life, I suppose I would have found it quite remarkable how little media coverage there has been on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which came into force on 1 July, one which we described as the ultimate in fatuity.
- How could they have resisted another of his jaunty, trademark yarns, combining plot twists and utter fatuity in a way that just keeps you ploughing on, despite your better nature and the certainty that virtually any other activity would be a better use of these precious hours of life?
- Each time I was instructed that such-and-such a fatuity was the view of "the Europeans," I decided not that my Anglo-Celtic-Polish-German-Jewish heritage was being parodied (though it was) but that someone whose claim to be "European" was at least as good as M. Chirac's should assure his American friends that they need not feel unsophisticated or embarrassed.
- To all the people who re-elected Ms. Bachman to the congress here goes another of her attempts at being the stupidest of them all. census isn't a new concept but how would she know anything about it. one needs something called a workable analytical brain in their heads and not a gun that shoots crap every time it shoots. way to go bachman. you will truly reach the great heights in fatuity.
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