It was incredible that she had not known why Peggy had gone out, that she should fatuously have told herself that the girl was probably working in the dairy; but in those days her mind was often half asleep with love for the unborn.
But now they could smile tenderly and derisively out into this hushed moonlight that received the uncountable and fatuously peaceful breaths of the sleepers who had been their enemies and were to be their slaves.
After a pause Marion said, speaking fatuously in order to avoid the appearance of irony: "You're quite a romantic bride, Poppy.
She knew all Mildred's handicaps, both those the girl was conscious of and those far heavier ones which she fatuously regarded as advantages.
You'll never feel the same toward me again," he wentfatuously on.
He, himself, seemingly unsuspicious andfatuously trustful of demeanor, would observe them.
We have fatuously thought to surrender the sin of Adam, and still to keep a Saviour--not perceiving that we must keep both or neither.
Fatuously we stake our souls on each new creation--deeming that here, in sooth, is one that shall endure beyond the end of time.
Nearest the fence was an aged, gnarled and riven tree, foolishly decked in blossoms, like some faded, wrinkled dame, fatuously reluctant to leave off girlish finery.
He could have saved a few of the beans when reason was again enthroned, but they were so very few that he fatuously thought them not worth saving.
As he stood now, a hand affectionately upon the album, a trace of the fatuously admiring smile still lingering on his expressive face, a knock sounded upon the door.
She returned to the floor and danced a third time with Skippy, who was too fatuously pleased with his good fortune to notice the suppressed hilarity in the room.
Oh I don't know," he said, fatuously unconscious of the virtues he conceded to himself.
About five o'clock came the sound of a distant ring, and Seaton jumped up, overturning the board, and so ending a game that else might have fatuously continued to this day.
Her image was looking back at her stiffly, superciliously, with, so it seemed to her, the contemptible simper of one who still fatuously admires the thing that has long since lost its charm.
To be dowered so well and so fatuously to betray his dowry!
He would smile towards her and, fatuously anxious to please, offer some remark that might draw her into the conversation.
How she had admired him as he gazed fatuously at her in church!
Well, this is a fair knock-out," he ejaculated, fatuously disconcerted.
He's been down here this morning, fatuously blustering, and trying to carry the post by storm, with a couple of policemen.
But words are fatuously inadequate and convey little.
We encouraged the younger boys in tournaments and dramatics of all sorts, and we somewhat fatuously believed that boys who were early interested in adventurers or explorers might later want to know the lives of living statesmen and inventors.
But the cleanliness of the ward was becoming much too popular to suit our all-powerful alderman and, although we felt fatuously secure under the regime of civil service, he found a way to circumvent us by eliminating the position altogether.
Come on, fellows, Hicks can't escape our vengeance, if he bursts into what he fatuously believes is song.
Hicks, leaning his beloved banjo against the wall and throwing himself into what he fatuously believed was an intensely pugilistic pose.
To grasp his receding reason he fatuously exclaimed:-- "Is this a Salvation Army fantasy?
With a supreme effort he pulled himself together, and faced the fatuously grinning host with a dash of his native impudence.
Foolish unarmed humans--fatuously unarmed, with these diabolical mechanical monsters now upon them.
Larry told himself that these officials, knowing of impending trouble with the Robots, were fatuously trustful that the storm would pass without breaking.
Cracklingly under her eager fingers the clumsy cover slid off, exposing once more to her enraptured gaze the gay-colored muslin layer of animal masks leering fatuously up at her.
The frank, intent gaze of these eyes was very flattering and, in its ultimate effect, perilous, since it led you fatuously to believe that she had forgotten there were any other trousered beings extant.
I was fatuously full of my own late tremors and present relief; and my first idiotic act was to spill some whiskey and squirt the soda-water all over in my anxiety to do instant justice to the occasion.
Bakuma, who had hoped fatuously that the wizard would have forgotten.
The bedizened porter whistled fatuously at a passing taxicab, which though fareless held steadfast to its way, while the driver acknowledged the signal only with jeers and disgraceful gestures, after the manner of his kind.
He stared unbelievingly at the frosty eyes of Monk beneath their fatuously stubborn brows, at the hard, unyielding eyes of Phinuit.
His hair had grown long, his head was set stiffly, there was something fatuously venerable in his aspect.
The wife of the "odious person" was witless andfatuously conceited.
So fatuously fond was he of this particular variety of condiment that, on their account alone, he would have imported the Duchess and her entire establishment into America.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatuously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
