Example sentences for: fatuous

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

  • 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."

  • Nor does anyone recall telling Mr. Lewis that he was free to express his views whatever they may be, no matter how fatuous or uninformed by the slightest understanding of the free enterprise system, and without considering for a moment that Slate is owned by Microsoft and that some of its staff members have young children and very little talent that would make us employable at a less saintlike, public-spirited, and compassionate company.

  • How about the fatuous?

  • Bruce Morton, who ends each Late Edition show with a pithy television essay on culture and politics, pokes fun this week at the fatuous use of millennial themes to sell products--from Millennium Barbie to Millennium Budweiser to M & M's, the "official candy of the millennium," and so on.

  • The usually fatuous Tom Brokaw outdid himself when he rated the century--it was a tough one, he blathered, with two world wars, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust, but there was also the triumph of the space program.


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