fatuousness

Dave asked with a fatuousness that still further irritated him.

One other partial concession is made in a passage sublime in its fatuousness.

With the fatuousness of a weak man cornered, he clung to unimportant details.

Instead of breaking, as the bosses—with the fatuousness of Nero—had hoped, the picket became more intense and more effective.

Posterity adjudicated that no greater example of servile fatuousness could be produced.