Example sentences for: fatuous

How can you use “fatuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The kind of detachment the movie is peddling isn't artistic, it isn't life--it's nihilism at its most fatuous.

  • Enormous population of nonvoters felt time was better spent making crude remarks at expense of fatuous candidates.

  • The director clearly adores Ryan, but she's the actress's worst enemy, goading her into ever more sickening reaches of chin-wagging cuteness--such as her fatuous look of enchantment on the subway or the furtive little hip-hops to her laptop after her Luddite boyfriend has left for the office.

  • But because it is put forward by a fatuous Charleston, S.C., college professor, we hear it for what Horwitz rightly calls it: "a clever glide around race and slavery, rather like the slick-tongued defense of the Southern 'way of life' made by antebellum orators, South Carolinians in particular."

  • West's essay on Du Bois in Africana seemed a re-working of his essay on Du Bois in The Future of the Race . There is nothing new said in his Africana essay, and his presentism, his insistence on judging a historical figure by current moral standards, I find fatuous, just poor scholarship.


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