otiose

Example Sentences

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The problem is all this could become otiose if Donald Trump imposes huge tariffs on Chinese imports and triggers a global trade war.

From BBC

Insisting that every branch also have a vault and a cash-handling teller would be otiose, Torstendahl told me, especially given the sharp decline in cash transactions in the past decade.

From The New Yorker

But when Chairman Mao Zedong unleashed his socialist society, dog ownership, like golf or capitalism, was regarded as an otiose affectation.

From Time

His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.

From Literature

Ludicrously, it was binned in favour of a hammy and otiose version of the Beatles’ Across the Universe.

From The Guardian