False values and fatuous words: these are the worst monsters for mortals-- long slumbereth and waiteth the fate that is in them.

The man to win her is he who calls loudly for his drink, without a "Please" or a "Thank you," throws his hat at the back of his head, gulps down half his glass, and, while drawing breath for the other half, takes a hard, indifferent look at her, and in an off-hand voice throws her some fatuous, mirthless jest.

"The magazine editors are not wholly fatuous. I know that.

Rokoff," she said, "had you attempted to force me to submit to your evil desires, but that you should be so fatuous as to believe that I, wife of John Clayton, would come to you willingly, even to save my life, I should never have imagined.

"I am, of course, a mere student," said I, with a fatuous smile, "hardly more, I might say, than an earnest inquirer.

Several other women also chimed in, with an animus which none of them would have been so fatuous as to show but for the rollicking evening they had passed.

You may throw the great switch that will give you the freedom of the air of Okar, and then, in fatuous security, go on with thy red princess to the freedom of--death.

Those that come through the gate of ivory are fatuous, but those from the gate of horn mean something to those that see them.

It might have been a Carlist committee meeting of a particularly fatuous character.

Lastly (it was perhaps fanciful, even fatuous), I guessed that Miss Tita personally would not in the last resort be less my friend.

Then he turned his own rather fatuous face to the company.

Certainly, in the opinion of Hirst and Hewet, who lay back in long arm-chairs in the middle of the hall, with their coffee-cups beside them, and their cigarettes in their hands, the evening was unusually dull, the women unusually badly dressed, the men unusually fatuous. Moreover, when the mail had been distributed half an hour ago there were no letters for either of the two young men.