Fatuously

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  • adverb. With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
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  • adverb. vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish
  • Word Usage
    "Yet "Revolutionary Road" -- the name fatuously meant to imply that America's revolutionary promise withers and dies in the suburbs -- caught the reflexive attitudes of many readers."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning