Translations for „fatuous“ in the Portuguese » English Dictionary

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fatuous

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Nor was the pledge mere idle words nor fatuous boasting.

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Well, that would be a fatuous thing to say.

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Greatly changed from the novel, it became a comedy/drama about a hard-boiled reporter who becomes popular when he adopts a female pseudonym and dispenses fatuous advice.

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But they're a fatuous bunch, so eager to live like it's 1994 again.

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It plays to the worst and laziest in humanity, the desire to think the worst of the past and the desire to feel superior to it in some fatuous way.

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Would you ever allow a book of evolutionary psychology applied to art not to be entirely fatuous?

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A core group made freeze-able dinners for me, bought massage and pampering vouchers, knew when to change the conversation from cancer to fatuous dribble.

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Other reviewers have called the series almost laughably tedious and fatuous and boring.

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The other forms are liking (intimacy), companionate love (intimacy and commitment), empty love (commitment), fatuous love (passion and commitment), and infatuation (passion).

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But even more chilling, if asylum seekers are being shipped off for such fatuous reasons, what happens to those who fall under the radar?

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