superfluousness
Example Sentences
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You are familiar, I'm sure, with the institution of the gift shop: a business that exists entirely to sell useless treats and temptations, an ode to capitalistic superfluousness.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2022
As investigators picked through the wreckage in Manhattan, Arlington and Shanksville, Pa., the idea of a 9/11 novel sounded obscene in its redundancy, its obviousness, its galling superfluousness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
The cancer and scourge-of-marine-life issues only raised their heads later, in stinging rebuke of the initial invention’s triviality and superfluousness.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2019
The whimsical superfluousness of such stories becomes in the aggregate ninety-nine chapters of “Life,” a massive encyclopedia of the off-kilter quotidian.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
Tom was conscious of every fleck of dust on his clothes and shoes; of the skilless knot in his necktie; of the school-desk droop in his shoulders; of the utter superfluousness of his big hands.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
