fatuously
- r vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish
- He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning .
- Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, PTI) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many.
- In truth, Dukakis' campaign weltanschauung is as fatuously sunny as Bush's.