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
The verb do, in I do speak, is not pleonastic.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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
Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
