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

The verb do, in I do speak, is not pleonastic.

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

The phrase "zephyr breeze," in the opening stanza, strikes us as a trifle pleonastic; since a zephyr is itself a breeze; not a quality of a breeze.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

If we will have it to be, "Whatsoever things he doeth, they shall prosper;" the pronoun they appears to be pleonastic.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold