pleonastic

Example Sentences

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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

Moor still has, so that Fenimore is pleonastic.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

The king he is just, dealt with as a single sentence, is undoubtedly pleonastic.

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

Certainly the strenuous son of Menoetius is quite dead,— for the word "quite" is pleonastic after the Attic fashion.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch