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Definition of Fatuously
1. Adverb. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
Definition of Fatuously
1. Adverb. With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fatuously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatuously
Literary usage of Fatuously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thirty Years' War on Silver: Money Scientifically Treated and Logically by Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald (1903)
"The phrase, " fatuously ascribed," comes quite up to the mark of calling Mr.
Cleveland a fool. The following is the Bulletin article: — " CHAIRMAN PAYNE OF ..."
2. Passed by the Censor: The Experience of an American Newspaper Man in France by Wythe Williams (1916)
"One of my companions, smiling fatuously, remarked: "Well, fellows, this is a real
... He too was smiling, but not fatuously. Although he was French he was ..."
3. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania by University of Pennsylvania (1899)
"... as Brandt says, by the ass, who disobey their doctor or make foolish exchanges,
or who are fatuously credulous or fatuously communicative, or generally ..."
4. Taking "forth the Precious from the Vile"--Jer. XV, 19: Including They Shall by Jessie Thomas Knapp (1920)
""On the other hand," says a noted woman writer, "women are absolutely silent, a
silence so profound that the men have fatuously leaped to the conclusion ..."
5. Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature by Henry Maudsley (1902)
"... nay, fatuously admire and foster them—most fatuously perhaps the worse they
are—when they see in the faulty trail a likeness to one of themselves, ..."
6. The amateur's magazine (1859)
"... whose aspirations have never soared to skates, rushing fatuously down long
slides, and then as fatuously back again: of myriads of tents, tables, ..."
7. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"Behind them the porter stood, chuckling fatuously. II The California express on
the Southern Railway was due at Yellow Sky in twenty-one minutes. ..."
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