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
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
Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious†, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
