Word of the Day: Fatuous
fat-u-ous / ˈfa-chü-əs
adjective
- foolish or inanely silly
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler, 1835-1902
- unreal; illusory
Everybody who’s been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability.
Quentin Crisp, 1908-1999