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Foolish in a smug or thoughtless way.

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fatuous

The fatuous suggestion ignored the most obvious difficulty.
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A fatuous boast that the project could not fail because its leader was naturally brilliant treated self-satisfaction as a substitute for a workable plan.
From Advice That Fails the Project.
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