How To Use Otiose In A Sentence
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My view of addiction is that once you have acknowledged it, once you have seen it within yourself, then such debates become otiose.
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The use of the word 'recumbent' is surely otiose after the word 'recline'.
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The great houses, for many of which a musical chapel establishment had become otiose, continued to support professional musicians for entertainment and for the teaching of their children and servants.
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Wanless, answered enquiries as to Ingram's behaviour under what Mrs. Percival otiosely called "his bereavement," echoed speculations at to his whereabouts -- played, in short, vacantly an empty part, and kept her mother upon tenterhooks.
Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution
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Let's remember, though, that he forced himself onto the podium and proceeded to galvanise the orchestra into a rehearsal of Mahler's 5th that rendered all thoughts of his weakness otiose.
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Still, I pack too much, a huge duffle crammed with triple and quadruple of everything: shirts, shorts, footwear, rainwear, and all sorts of otiose extras I know I will never use.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
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I think making a distinction between modern and pre-modern war is irrelevant and otiose here by the way.
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He paid deference to the country's ceremonial presidency and even to its largely otiose Vice-Presidency; he never let the public forget that these notables outranked him in protocol terms.
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Still, I pack too much, a huge duffle crammed with triple and quadruple of everything: shirts, shorts, footwear, rainwear, and all sorts of otiose extras I know I will never use.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
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I agree with her submission that his construction would render paragraph 3 in practice otiose.
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Second, if this narrow interpretation is right, section 36 seems otiose.
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If the again good domain name with achieve content again good formerly is not known by engine also be otiose!
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In this case, moreover, the proposed form of the subsidy is entirely otiose.
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The reference to ‘first’ payment is itself otiose if there was not to be a second payment.
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A propos of QUANGOs, there are other elements of Government which are surely otiose.
Another Dreary Socialist Programme
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Many philosophers, especially those of the analytic and postanalytic traditions, reject the assumptions required by these approaches as empirically baseless and theoretically otiose.
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The otiose handkerchief, however, was a success with the Reverend Fisher, who brightened.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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They like to get out and pay to be otiosely frotted and fawned over in their lunch hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead the Tories plan to ring-fence NHS spending, thus keeping hordes of adminstrators who are otherwise otiose beavering away at nothing very much.
Archive 2009-06-14
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For all anyone knows, al-Qaida's gloating in its murderous glossy magazine, Inspire, and Niall Ferguson's talk of a caliphate are just as otiose as Blair's jawdropping exhortation, given his legacy of mayhem, for the west to show "the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief we can achieve them".
Women are often the losers when the west weighs in | Catherine Bennett
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Certainly any facility with writing seems to be considered otiose.
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Yama is a Vedic god, one of the most ancient; he has become otiose.
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˜well-being™ is an otiose notion in ethics is that he himself seems to have a view on what well-being is.
Well-Being
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The otiose handkerchief, however, was a success with the Reverend Fisher, who brightened.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Assuming that the transparency of the mind is not merely an otiose and decadent luxury, a device for self-absorbed wallowing, but that it has evolutionary value, knowledge of contents independent of attitudes is of no interest.
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He submitted that the meaning of the phrase cannot simply be merged with the requirement for complete crystal submersion in the silicone layer, as that would render it otiose.
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For the rest of the year, I fought with my father who felt that a piano was an otiose flamboyance of the upper classes.
Moondog
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The sooner we quit fiddling with otiose sanctions against Iran, the sooner we can begin crafting containment and deterrence strategies that are actually effective.
Michael Hughes: Who Cares If Iran Goes Nuclear?
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I'm suprised, there's no otiose argument on the decline of M Night Shyamalan's movies yet.
Twisted New Poster for Shyamalan's The Happening « FirstShowing.net
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But a funny thing happened this week: in our final fling for the year, the props came pouring in from all over, and suddenly, this whole enterprise doesn't seem quite so otiose.
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I make no comment: anything I say would be otiose in the face of a work of such unique genius.
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This fact of currency union renders all the sophistry of the Chancellor's five tests otiose.
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Since nearly everyone is dislocated, including writers within our current critical diaspora, the staking, lauding, and defense of territories, an otiose form of regionalism, is even more absurd.
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Hence, English company law has made the doctrine of ultra vires otiose by means of an express general clause.
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Where else could they pick up that otiose rhetoric?
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The Law was perfectly adequate before the Hunting Act 2005 to prosecute didicoy poachers coursing their lurchers on private land and in this regard the new Act is quite otiose.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
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Quod iis justo Dei judicio solet accidere, qui de electionis gratia, vel temere praesumentes, vel otiose et proterve fabulantes, in viis electorum ambulare nolunt.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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He paid deference to the country's ceremonial presidency and even to its largely otiose Vice-Presidency; he never let the public forget that these notables outranked him in protocol terms.
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an otiose undertaking
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otiose lines in a play
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I'm sorry to be such a scrotum, but did you mean to type "otiose" or "obtuse"?
"Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."
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But a funny thing happened this week: in our final fling for the year, the props came pouring in from all over, and suddenly, this whole enterprise doesn't seem quite so otiose.
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Hence, English company law has made the doctrine of ultra vires otiose by means of an express general clause.
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Further, since the class is capable of being defined by the weight of the vehicle and the number of axles, a classification by reference to the number of persons carried or particular ‘burden’ would be otiose.
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But in the hospital case such a purpose is otiose.
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If so, it would be otiose for the officer concerned to give an explanation.
