pleonastic

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The title’s pleonastic fourth word is the giveaway.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

While Humphrey reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pleonasm in the syntax of pronouns.—In the following sentences the words in italics are pleonastic: 1.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious†, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton