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
In the west we say therefore theeäzam here, theeäzamy here, and thizzam here for these, or these here; and sometimes without the pleonastic and unnecessary here.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
F. 87 The translation here is somewhat pleonastic for the sake of perspicuity; the original is clear in itself, but not to us who have no such practice.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
With these may be mentioned the French name Fosse, whence the apparently pleonastic Fosdyke and the name of Verdant Green's friend, Mr. Four-in-hand Fosbrooke.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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