| Muddling through is no substitute for clarity and the church is now paying for its fatuity and lack of a magisterium. |
| This conviction was strengthened by his vanity and conceit, a conceit to the point of fatuity. |
| To him, the fatuity of the learned judge is an example of our tendency to throw about words that have lost all meaning, even in the mouths of educated people. |
| The book was a best-seller, but it provoked the scornful charge of personal fatuity that has dogged Boswell's name ever since. |
| Yesterday she was even amused at the strangeness and the fatuity of it all. |
| But the fatuity of their union was evident to them, and they parted. |
