Modifies a noun

• quot: For social security reform the fatuous quot which many thought placed underneath the.

• claim: Behind its fatuous claims of " managed migration " , the Government is starting to worry.

• comment: OK... I'll shuffle these topics around into some sort of order, with the bar-room arguments and fatuous comments at the bottom.

• idea: There are some fatuous ideas about how GA gets a free ride.

• question: The answers to each of these fatuous questions are of course it does not!

• argument: So I fail to see why you feel that it helps you to resort to such fatuous arguments.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Then he turned his own rather fatuous face to the company.

• so: For all his limitations I cannot imagine Blair saying anything so fatuous.

• somewhat: Somewhat fatuous and hair brained, one is lost in its autonomous sangfroid.

• completely: In those circumstances, the idea that the US and the British are getting their hands on Iraqi oil is completely fatuous.

• totally: A totally fatuous and circular argument from an intellectually bankrupt philosophy.

• almost: Given what the NHS was, it is almost fatuous to say all the money has gone in, but nothing's happened.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: This is going to sound completely fatuous, but it's my honest answer.

• become: He describes his growing love of this country with an excited sense of wonder that never becomes fatuous.