superfluity
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Thankfully, YA novelist Robin Wasserman’s 2016 adult debut, “Girls on Fire,” boasts a superfluity of violently intense female friendship to tide us over until Season 3.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019
It is the rare as-told-to book, or one created in collaboration with an author-for-hire, that is well-written, but “A Piece of Light” is filled with a superfluity of penny-dreadful prose.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018
Partly, I think, because Miller treats his story line as Max would treat his car—stripping out superfluity and softness, in the interest of pure speed.
From The New Yorker • May 15, 2015
“My learned friend does not appear to have gained a great deal by his superfluity of interruption”, remarked the Solicitor-General suavely, and the Court laughed loudly.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing superfluity
Walden
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Jane Eyre
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