superfluity
Example Sentences
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How refreshingly meta, then, that “The Devil Wears Prada 2” — a film that seemingly had no discernible reason to exist other than to make money — directly addresses its own superfluity.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
Alongside the Spanish colonial homes, the scene is a picturesque look into wealth, opulence and superfluity that only a select few Angelenos can afford.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025
The sequel serves up plenty for specialists to chew on, not least a Jack Nicholson look-alike—insofar as that’s possible—behind the hotel bar, yet these semi-reconstructions betray an odd sense of superfluity and strain.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 8, 2019
Under low light, these faded, wispy clippings from the cutting-room floor suggest a superfluity of ideas that might have supplied a lifetime of inspiration to other artists.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019
A superfluity of romantic affection was rapidly accumulating that must have been deposited somewhere by now.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton
Vocabulary lists containing superfluity
Walden
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Jane Eyre
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The Merchant of Venice
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