They didn't know the best way to cover up their fatuity is let me have a happy life .Then it could show they were not fatuous, they have not do jackassery.
He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect.
We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true.
We obsessively go back over our slips and errors and contrast what did happen with what could so easily have been skirted if we had not been so fatuous and so witless.
He uttered an exclamation, and added, explaining it, " You do give a man a chance to be fatuous, though! As if it were walking home with me that made you wonder about yourself" !
Their larders are swept and waiting, and the night after the lettuce seed bed has been watered down in the fatuous hope of its sprouting, the ants move in en masse and carry it home.
I mean, you work on teams all the time, and I know that there are moments when you really appreciate your colleagues, and if you say it, don't be fatuous, and don't go over the top.
He really has — queer fatuous investigator! — an unusually sensitive touch for the human texture, and the specimens he gathers into his museum of heterogeneous memories have almost always some mark of the rare and chosen.
I have read in a paper which is said to have the largest circulation in the world, a comparison between the aspects of London and Paris, a comparison which should be positively laureat, as the great masterpiece of fatuous stupidity.