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Recent Examples of fatuity Despite the fatuity of the arguments being posited by the ESG critics, the investment industry is running scared. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022 Molière escapes fatuity with his candor that what restores a universe unbalanced by intellectual obsession is, most often, normal erotic appetite. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022 Their work, in and out of power, is to dress up the atavistic avarice and self-serving fatuity of the wealthy people who fund and shape conservative politics as an ideology. David Roth, The New Republic, 9 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fatuity
Noun
  • Ed brings great depth and heart to the man in charge of safety for this massive jump, an island of reason in a sea of insanity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • At trial, Crawford's attorneys acknowledged his guilt to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense, even though that's not how Crawford wanted to handle the case, according to reporting by the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Orphan Master’s Son, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013, follows a North Korean man struggling to survive amid the cruelty and madness of a modern totalitarian regime.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • No orgies, no drug madness, no trouble with the law.
    Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While sensitivity to cold can vary by factors like a dog's health, age, size, coat thickness, and more, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) warns no dog should be left outdoors amid below-freezing temperatures (below 32 degrees Fahrenheit).
    Jenna Prestininzi, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Their desirability is based on factors such as their age, patina, length, thickness, and smoothness.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Secret Agent opens in stark simplicity.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As for the overall style, Thevenot gravitates toward simplicity, suggesting something in the center of the updo-to-hair-down spectrum.
    Anneke Knot, Allure, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With a setting both familiar and uniquely alien to all of us watching at home, there are few limits to the kind of absurdities the cast could get into.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • More than anything, even amid the silliness and absurdities of the medical emergencies, the show’s feel-good moments, which involve people being saved and others working together, depict a deep humanity.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pynchon’s absurdism is his way of grappling with and undermining the awful too-muchness and stupidity of it all — especially of the American project and its many tentacles.
    Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The only reason for this incessant stupidity?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement With apt timing, manner, and physicality, DiCaprio translates Bob’s foolishness into a dazzling comedic show.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Fatuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatuity. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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