inessential
Example Sentences
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With this noisy, nonsensical, nutso movie careening, crazy-eyed onto a cinematic freeway otherwise choked with interchangeably airless superhero properties, this most inessential of blockbuster filmmakers has suddenly proved himself weirdly valuable.
From Los Angeles Times
This was an Oscars where a moment tailor-made for a professional wrestling match somehow made the clothes feel somehow inessential.
From Los Angeles Times
“Tall Girl 2,” an inessential sequel by the director Emily Ting and the returning screenwriter Sam Wolfson, picks up a semester later, in springtime, with Jodi adjusting to shocking, newfound popularity.
From New York Times
“We were inessential in every way,” he writes to his son later.
From Los Angeles Times
The result showed how essential and how inessential the platform is all at once.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.