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fatuous

adjective

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Foolish in a smug or thoughtless way.

The fatuous suggestion ignored the most obvious difficulty.

Dictionary practice example.

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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