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

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

First E. M. Oh, I know you ape the casuist, and love the pleonastic, But how tackle our taxation in a manner really drastic With a Revenue declining!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 by Various

My banks, they are furnished,—the most straitest sect,—these are pleonastic expressions.

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