Fatuous

He had no clear idea of what to do with his new acquisition, other than realising a fatuous idea about “free speech”.

Martin Sweeting, founder of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., which previously counted Musk as an investor, said the government’s oft-repeated goal of the UK becoming a space superpower is “fatuous” given its spending.

Online dating seems to be the same fatuous bloodsport for the overly self-conscious as the clubs and bars which prompted its beginnings.

The National Trust, which exists to protect and promote our history, now prefers to airbrush the past and replace real castles with bouncy castles and ancient tapestries with fatuous touch-screen ‘experiences’ tailored to the snowflake generation.

This was a time ludicrously called the “end of history” by that most fatuous of political observers, Francis Fukuyama.

Before making silly and fatuous comments on stories like this, research your history.

At the National Review, where you can also encounter the fatuous Jonah Goldberg or the perpetually morally panicked David French, he is very nearly reasonable, even if he still appears slightly mad to those of us outside of the asylum.

Cherry Wilkinson, a fatuous female protagonist with a history of novel-reading, fancies herself as the heroine of a Gothic romance.

I can think of twenty adjectives – fatuous, pointless, absurd.

I think it is fatuous.