fatuously
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
fatuously
- With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
- 1835, Michael Ryan (ed.), "Reform in the College of Physicians", London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. VII, G. Henderson, page [http://books.google.com/books?id=XXGRMi7ycXYC&pg=PA153&dq=fatuously+date:1831-1840&lr=&as_brr=0 153],
- Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of destruction?
- 1835, Michael Ryan (ed.), "Reform in the College of Physicians", London Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. VII, G. Henderson, page [http://books.google.com/books?id=XXGRMi7ycXYC&pg=PA153&dq=fatuously+date:1831-1840&lr=&as_brr=0 153],
- (with smug stupidity) foolishly, idiotically, stupidly
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