superfluous
Example Sentences
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This provoked yelps from technocrats who said it was impractical and superfluous.
Maybe a few of the how-to asides are superfluous; I really didn’t need a lesson on how to gift wrap books.
From Salon
Back in the winter, when some corners of the sport were bemoaning their heavy spending, they were imagining a world in which they’d actually be able to sell superfluous pieces.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s Lucy’s job to sift through a person’s attributes, both real and imagined, legitimately important and completely superfluous, to determine their compatibility with one of her clients.
From Salon
Originally, King was inspired only to write the middle-aged Chuck chapters, and then a year later he bound those pieces together by adding the boyhood kicker and its superfluous supernatural element.
From Los Angeles Times
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