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

He had a command of words and much skill in versification, but he is pleonastic and fond of complicated metres and of ending his lines with the same syllable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Moss, corrected and purged of some of its colloquial pleonastic forms of expression.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox

We have, therefore, to trace the rise and development of what may be forcibly expressed by the apparently pleonastic phrase human ecclesiasticism.

From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)