fatuously
IPA: fˈætʃʌwʌsɫi
adverb
- With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
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Examples of "fatuously" in Sentences
- You employ meaningless phrases as fatuously as the mayor.
- Ronald Reagan used to say rather fatuously that Democrats had gone so far left they'd left the country.
- What appears to be a commercial-ended product scowls at its own small coterie of advisors and grins fatuously at all the end-users.
- It's not, as Obama fatuously suggested, because of oil company lobbying but because it is very portable, energy-dense and easy to use.
- Newt Gingrich, as a former professor of history, ought to know better than to characterize Obama fatuously as "the most radical president in American history."
- Silverberg famously and fatuously stated that it was obvious from their masculine content that the stories of James Tiptree, Jr. could only have been written by a man.
- Yet "Revolutionary Road" -- the name fatuously meant to imply that America's revolutionary promise withers and dies in the suburbs -- caught the reflexive attitudes of many readers.
- "I should think it did," Kendal replied; and then their eyes met, and they laughed the healthy instinctive laugh of youth when it is asked to mourn fatuously, which is always a little cruel.
- The other reason cuts on this scale have been possible is that the government has hidden behind Darling's tax increases, arguing fatuously that it should receive credit for keeping them in place.
- This week we've watched the euro continue to sink to record lows against the Swiss franc, sometimes fatuously referred to as Europe's new D-Mark but nonetheless the region's currency gold standard.
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