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• n  a ludicrous folly

• None of them require the audience to embrace heavy-duty fantasy or comic-romantic fatuity.
• He's happy to play dumb allowing Dewey to live profitably within the unexamined premises, the mythic fatuity, of his media-driven myth.
• You might just as well talk about the general fatuity of American journalism, American medicine, American mathematicsor American finance.

• absurdity
• fatuousness
• silliness

News & Articles

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• Why take stock when you can kill the messenger?
  We increasingly live in a world in which fatuity (as in smug stupidity) prevails. Think of the unionistas’ cries for more and/or “more equitable” state ...
  March 9, 2014 - The Mckeesport Daily News

Quotes

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• Christopher Hitchens in Bloomberg
  Slamming the Nobel committee's decision as a "selection of absurdity," UK writer Christopher Hitchens described anti-war poems written by Pinter as "a preference for dictatorship larded with obscenity and fatuity," in a Wall Street...