How To Use Superfluous In A Sentence

- not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
- not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?
Everything seems to fit together perfectly, and one doesn't catch any extra or superfluous notes.
It's also fair to say that I would nonetheless like a companion to share it with, and that in my more unquiet moments I get annoyed with myself for what seems like a superfluous desire; after all, I don't need a partner to make me happy.

Export of superfluous man-power from the poorer inland farms was an established tradition by the eighteenth century.
It can use this claim to block further legislation, claiming it is superfluous.
A number of obsolete and superfluous names have been assigned to Franklin andradite, among them are the polyadelphite of Thomson, melanite of Seybert and Seymour, and also colophonite, topazolite, and titanmelanite, all of obscure origin locally.
I quote from Mr Edmund Gosse in the Sunday Times of May 30th, 1920: "Unless something is done to stem this flood of poetastry the art of verse will become not merely superfluous, but ridiculous. The Second-Order Mind
With this clue we recognise that the big pink splodge that occupies the rest of the paper must be Venus - Twombly's inept attempt to paint a recumbent nude; if, however, we read the breasts as heads, the splodge could equally well be interpreted as the lovers sexually engaged, the detached penis now a superfluous synecdochism. Evening Standard - Home
With only one room at our disposal it would seem to the uninitiated that the accommodation of the homestead must have been strained to bursting point; but "out-bush" every man carries a "bluey" and a mosquito net in his swag, and as the hosts slept under the verandah, and the guests on the garden paths, or in their camps among the forest trees, spare rooms would only have been superfluous. We of the Never-Never
Layer 3 uses perceptual audio coding and psychoacoustic compression to remove all superfluous information (more specifically, the redundant and irrelevant parts of a sound signal).
Although he claims that ‘indirect assassination’ is not in his nature, this is exactly how he disposes of his superfluous first wife.
Somehow the New Yorker's arcane use of a diaeresis (coöperation) or acute accent (élite) seems quaint - and doesn't interrupt a reader's flow like an additional, superfluous word; even e-mail doesn't itch. Bruce Gilardi: The Gray Lady Doesn't Get the 'Message' (and is Promoting Porn?)
QUOTATION: Middle-aged clubwoman, with a flutter in her voice: Oh, Mr. Stevenson, your speech was superfluous. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-65)
The crowd was so well - behaved that the police presence was superfluous.
Under these circumstances, to dine is difficult – to go to bed superfluous – to sleep impossible. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Local authorities have become vast empires of superfluous activity, overmanned at taxpayers' expense.
I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are superfluous once central committees have approved a multicentre project.
The drama of the race was almost superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
And against a backdrop of needs for housing and jobs, the idea of saving trees and wildlife may seem superfluous.
I have not tried to make a positive case for land value taxation, which seemed superfluous.
Our own Product, in a cleanly wholsome manner, contented our Appetites; such as serv'd the Conveniency of Life, not superfluous Luxury. A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
The crowd was so well - behaved that the police presence was superfluous.
The evil was so wide-spreading, so violent and immedicable, that no care, no prevention could be judged superfluous, which even added a chance to our escape. The Last Man
Those who are not bored are merely lost in superfluous activity: fashion, lifestyle, TV, drink, drugs, technology, et cetera – the usual things we use to pass the time. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke
The suggestion that any player could overhaul Jack Nicklaus in major championships was considered superfluous until Tiger Woods appeared in the mid-1990s.
All the stories are simply constructed, no superfluous words, no extra images to clutter the feeling.
_trouse_, is of every-day use in this county of Hereford for trimmings of hedges; that it is given by Grose as a verb in use in Warwickshire for trimming off the superfluous branches; and lastly, that it is employed as a substantive to signify shreddings by Philemon Holland, who, if I rightly remember, was many years head master of Coventry Grammar School: Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Because at that point, for anyone with more than a passing interest in sport, the sales patter becomes superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
… On the other hand, it must be obvious, that when Circe’s unfortunate animals are induced to worship chastity, all they see and _worship_ therein, is their opposite — oh! and with what tragic groaning and fervour, may well be imagined — that same painful and thoroughly superfluous opposition which, towards the end of his life, Richard Wagner undoubtedly wished to set to music and to put on the stage, _And to what purpose? The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. ' Mike Green: Innovation Crisis in Black America Pt. 4: 20th vs 21st century ideology
It almost seems superfluous to name-check the ubiquitous brands in the Kellogg's stable.
He had, indeed, that strong aversion felt by all the lower ranks of people towards four-footed companions very completely, notwithstanding he had for many years a cat which he called Hodge, that kept always in his room at Fleet Street; but so exact was he not to offend the human species by superfluous attention to brutes, that when the creature was grown sick and old, and could eat nothing but oysters, Mr. Johnson always went out himself to buy Hodge's dinner, that Francis the black's delicacy might not be hurt, at seeing himself employed for the convenience of a quadruped. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
His western omelet comes with hash browns on the side and a superfluous garnish of an orange slice and parsley.
If this move was supposed to demonstrate the will of the public, it was no different from both wearing rainwear and carrying an umbrella - it was superfluous.
They added that they couldn't intervene in response to "speculations as to hypothetical negative effects" of corruption, and that an administrative inquiry "would be superfluous" as the U.N. and Cambodian government were "seised of the situation. In the Cambodian Judges' Court
But if senior managers can use such a system it could render middle managers superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
Not really an option" is your position, meaning a discussion of historical evidence is "superfluous from a scriptural perspective". An Amazing First Century
One late sixteenth-century commentator on America recommended it as a purge for superfluous phlegm; and smokers believed it functioned as an antidote for poisons, as an expellant for "sour" humors, and as a healer of wounds. Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699
It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage.
Unfortunately, and ironically, this renders the renditions superfluous as, especially with Bachman singing, they're almost note-perfect versions of the originals.
It is superfluous to mention that the whole of the messages sent by the local intelligence departments and by the De Wet expert were dismissed as "bunkum," often without perusal. On the Heels of De Wet
Because at that point, for anyone with more than a passing interest in sport, the sales patter becomes superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
In your case, the phlogistic, or inflammatory element is abundant; if you will permit me to put it so, you generate superfluous oxygen, possessing as you do the inflammatory temperament of a man destined to experience strong emotions. The Magic Skin
These are either altogether superfluous, mere badges of ostentation and luxurious wealth, or they point to some fifth function not so much as contemplated by other universities, and, at present, absolutely and chimerically beyond their means of attainment. Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous genetic material is pruned out.
Who better to be your writing inspiration than the man who can bring out the super in superfluous? Use Michael Bay as Your Writing Muse | Write to Done
Thousands of hours of collective practice have rendered this skill superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
Your feete of three times by prescription of the Latine Grammariens are of eight sundry proportions, for some notable difference appearing in euery sillable of three falling in a word of that size: but because aboue the antepenultima there was (among the Latines) none accent audible in any long word, therefore to deuise any foote of longer measure then of three times was to them but superfluous: because all aboue the number of three are but compounded of their inferiours. The Arte of English Poesie
Other times, he prioritizes superfluous aspects of the narrative or the set design to take over and slow his storyline down to a virtual halt.
So the question isn't valid and the concern in tacking on "Batman" to the title is superfluous. It's All in a Name - Batman: The Dark Knight « FirstShowing.net
With or without a winner's medal, those superhero costumes are a little superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
His western omelet comes with hash browns on the side and a superfluous garnish of an orange slice and parsley.
But for the most accomplished jurists the Lethean draught was entirely superfluous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Elaborates on “Empathy,” What He Wants in a Supreme Court Nominee:
Being at last convinced in my own mind, and by others, that I shall not be quite superfluous in this concert, I know that not only I, but also Punto, Simoni [a tenorist], and Galvani will demand that the public should be apprised of our zeal for this charitable object; otherwise we must all conclude that we are not wanted. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2
But he often takes a false measure of their importance; and his superfluous prolixity is disagreeably balanced by his unseasonable brevity.] 66 Chishull, a curious traveller, has remarked the breadth of the Danube, which he passed to the south of Bucharest near the conflux of the Argish, (p. 77.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Vehicles overtook on both sides at high speed, making mirrors virtually superfluous and frequent shoulder checks imperative. Times, Sunday Times
Britain's most famous survival expert is clearly not the sort of chap to indulge himself with superfluous gadgets.
In home viewing, the television's cuts and close-ups filter off superfluous action and train your attention on stage.
She removed not only superfluous and unwelcome babes to order, but went out into the highways and byways, gathering in children of a larger growth, and even such adults as she could entice to the oilery. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
A second commentary by producer David Foster, however, is a yawner - superfluous, dreary, dull, and offering nothing of interest.
The emulgent draw this superfluous moisture from the blood; the two ureters convey it to the bladder, which, by reason of his site in the lower belly, is apt to receive it, having two parts, neck and bottom: the bottom holds the water, the neck is constringed with a muscle, which, as a porter, keeps the water from running out against our will. Anatomy of Melancholy
My presence at the afternoon's proceedings was superfluous.
Like the chrome molybdate it would be superfluous as a pigment. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Yesterday's show was completely devoid of superfluous accessories. Times, Sunday Times
No thou pitiful flatterer of thy master's imperfections; thou maukin made up of the shreds and parings of his superfluous fopperies. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » 2010 » August
The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail.
This done, she letteth her mash run till the malt be left without liquor, or at the leastwise the greatest part of the moisture, which she perceiveth by the stay and soft issue thereof; and by this time her second liquor in the furnace is ready to seethe, which is put also to the malt, as the first woort also again into the furnace, whereunto she addeth two pounds of the best English hops, and so letteth them seethe together by the space of two hours in summer or an hour and a half in winter, whereby it getteth an excellent colour, and continuance without impeachment or any superfluous tartness. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
farmery," which was "deemed superfluous" at the suppression, and for the most part pulled down. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
Today my editor upbraided me for the superfluous ornateness of my prose, opining that my headline, ‘Indigenous demoiselle is triumphant in natatorial tourney’ might more fittingly have been rendered, ‘Local girl wins swimming contest.’
The law encourages doctors and hospitals to join "accountable care organizations" that have financial incentives to limit unnecessary care; it beefs up "comparative effectiveness research" to weed out inefficient treatments; and it will eventually tax the most expensive insurance plans to restrain consumers 'superfluous use of health care. The price problem that health-care reform failed to cure
But an interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause that gives Congress virtually unlimited power and renders most of the rest of Article I superfluous is surely “improper” if anything is. The Volokh Conspiracy » Charles Fried on the Constitutionality of the Health Care Mandate
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Of course we are all against unnecessary regulation and superfluous quangos. Times, Sunday Times
In the intermediate zone between a population boom and a population bust, this superfluous genetic material is pruned out.
But the fact that her keel was riddled with superfluous tree-nail (pre-industrial rivets) holes fatally weakened her. The Times Literary Supplement
Apparently, that means that mentioning ‘victory’ would be superfluous in the first place, and contraindicated in the second. No need for ‘victory?’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
He was eager to learn but was able to filter out the relevant from the superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
If you watch Cole in the centre circle when the action is elsewhere, he puts in little superfluous running.
Local authorities have become vast empires of superfluous activity, overmanned at taxpayers' expense.
Pertinax exposed to public auction, 51 gold and silver plate, chariots of a singular construction, a superfluous wardrobe of silk and embroidery, and a great number of beautiful slaves of both sexes; excepting only, with attentive humanity, those who were born in a state of freedom, and had been ravished from the arms of their weeping parents. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
_antepenultima_ there was (among the Latines) none accent audible in any long word, therfore to deuise any foote of longer measure then of three times was to them but superfluous: because all aboue the number of three are but compounded of their inferiours. The Arte of English Poesie
The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. Shakespeare and the Supremes
If he wishes to assert a dual common source (both God and Q) then that's his prerogative but I would cite this as superfluous from a scriptural perspective. An Amazing First Century
A peculiar feature of neocapitalism in America is the presence of large groups which are excluded from production and which, because they are economically superfluous, must be kept in places of detention. The Education and the University We Need Now
Her outros to reports on the show have often been heavy with superfluous emotional cues for viewers.
On the other hand, a nonlinear classifier might give a better classification result even though extra caution needs to be exercised to avoid overfitting data with superfluous biomarkers.
I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are superfluous once central committees have approved a multicentre project.
Unnecessary, superfluous comments waste time and try the patience of participants.
Repack all the superfluous cups in the box.
He vegetated, superfluous and demoded, in a society which insisted that for its amusement the holy place be turned into a concert hall. Là-bas
The use of weapons which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering is similarly prohibited.
He knew the Lord's promise, and that the time for its fulfilment was at hand; yet so far from regarding either the immutability of the Divine _purpose_, or even the infallible certainty of the Divine _promise_, as a reason for neglecting prayer, as if that exercise were superfluous or vain, he was stimulated and encouraged to pray just because "he knew the word of the Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
For in nature as in simple bodies, when there is an accumulation of much superfluous matter, it very often moves by itself and makes a purgation which is healthy to that body; and so it happens in this compound body of the human race, that when all the provinces are full of inhabitants so that they cannot live or go elsewhere in order to occupy and fill up all places, and when human astuteness and malignity has gone as far as they can go, it happens of necessity that the world purges itself in one of the three ways, so that men having been chastised and reduced in number, live more commodiously and become better. Discourses
He keeps the tension high, though many of the props marking scene changes are superfluous.
Like Jacques Brel before him, Elliott strips his songs of any superfluous attribute, only leaving them bare, exposing their guts, and his, for all to see.
She had dismissed the caution as ‘superfluous and ideological’ but in the midst of the shooting recalled the words.
The first sign of the outbreak is adding superfluous letters to existing words like untill. BW3 Has A Nuanced Understanding Of Food Safety - The Consumerist
That is not because the principle of museums selling off unwanted or superfluous objects from their collection is being questioned.
In fact, as to this question of opposition, the fair Dedlock's observation was superfluous, Sir Leicester on these occasions always delivering in his own candidateship, as a kind of handsome wholesale order to be promptly executed. Bleak House
Nothing is overdone, nothing is superfluous.
Now, if something intervenes unexpectedly during the performance of this habitual activity, especially some opposition, some superfluous cajolement, correction, or similar thing, the intoxicated actor is thrown completely out of gear, and can not be restored to it, nor is he able properly to oppose this obstacle. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
If all we need are social agencies or schools, church becomes superfluous. Christianity Today
Because at that point, for anyone with more than a passing interest in sport, the sales patter becomes superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
It was superfluously hot, so I just blew on it and waited for it to cool down.
It's the most charmlessly charming, utterly superfluous album I've heard in a while.
I know the waste of superfluous motion without studying a moving-picture record of it, whether it be farm or farmhand, the layout of buildings or the layout of the farmhand's labor. Chapter 1
Somehow, the art rests in a balance of perfect tension - every element a gimmick but no element superfluous.
December 7th, 2008 at 12: 40 pm cash medic says: cash medic … antiquate stepping bovines breathers superfluously: finalize? Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero.
Moreover, those who ruled abroad often occupied the lower half of the sociocultural ladder in Britain, and were frequently reputed as ne'er-do-wells and superfluous men who presumably couldn't hack it back home.
On that very morning had they come for the first time under the valet's depurating hand, so little soiled, indeed, from the turfy ride of the preceding day, that a less scrupulous domestic might, perhaps, have considered the application of "Warren's Matchless," or oxalic acid, altogether superfluous. Humorous Ghost Stories
I felt like the returned prodigal - wasteful, superfluous.
Unless something is done to stem this flood of poetastry the art of verse will become not merely superfluous, but ridiculous. Introduction
Even so, the game is a noteworthy hybrid of multiple genres that somehow solidly come together to create a superfluous and entertaining experience.
A man is born with a superfluous quantity of skin at the end of his penis, which is known as the foreskin. Modern Science in the Bible
It says In the case of John Jenkins deceased, the coffin when it means John Jenkinss coffin: and its yea is not yea, neither is its nay nay: but its answer is in the affirmative or in the negative, as the foolish and superfluous case may be. V. Interlude: On Jargon
Eggs, on the other hand, like those of the house sparrow, redshank and some of the smaller warblers, are so easily confused with those of allied species that Lord Lilford's caution is by no means superfluous. Birds in the Calendar
The two dialogue sequences here are superfluous to say the least, as are the sound effects tagged at the end.
The author has amplified on the grounds of his faith, to a degree that might seem superfluous, if the question had not become so utterly bemazed and bedarkened of late. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Why do we have superfluous, but potentially deadly vestiges like the appendix or wisdom teeth?
The author examines solvability in quantum mechanics and classically superfluous invariants.
Strabo xi. 507, et sq. [1532] The obelus (/-) is used by Jerome to mark superfluous matter in the lxx.cf. Jer.p. 494, in Canon Fremantle's Translation. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The titles thus manifolded could be combined into volumes, by cutting away all superfluous margins and mounting the thin title-slips alphabetically on paper of uniform size, which, when bound, would be readily handled. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
He was eager to learn but was able to filter out the relevant from the superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
Any knowledge on modes, scales, intervals, dissonances, consonances, note names, and solmisation for example was superfluous and hence discarded.
The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail.
The use of weapons which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering is similarly prohibited.
_The wedge-shaped dash over the note_ (staccatissimo) was formerly employed to indicate a tone still more detached than that indicated by the dot, but this sign is really superfluous, and is seldom used at present. Music Notation and Terminology
It's tasteless and superfluous, but not clichéd.
There was no superfluous flesh about him; he was tall and muscular, with well - knit limbs, broad shoulders, and a head altogether lacking in the humble or conciliatory 'droop' which all worldly-wise parsons cultivate for the benefit of their rich patrons. God's Good Man
He was eager to learn but was able to filter out the relevant from the superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » 2010 » August
The word ‘smart’ in the title is probably superfluous but maybe it's helped them sell a few extra copies.
Often, a biologist need only examine the pleopods to make a family-level designation, thus making the dorsal carapace features superfluous in the diagnosis.
It includes too many superfluous, unnecessary and mundane issues, some of which are on restricted sale to the public only in strips or miniature sheets. Times, Sunday Times
-- Or the question may be more unanswerably stated thus, Is _good_ superfluous as a word exponent of a _kind_? Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.
An agreement on Kurdish autonomy would bring the Kurds back to their towns and villages, rendering a western military presence superfluous.
It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage.
Superfluous" sons and daughters were often sent to one temple or another; the sons of the highborn were the ones that became the priests that were ultimately placed in the best situations. Brightly Burning
The austerity and uniformity of much modern architecture made sculpture superfluous.
Superfluous with shortage, why is Chinese economy always as pendulous swing?
Written English can be amended over time, deleting superfluous sentences, compacting complex concepts, and inserting new ideas, eventuating in a full and complete final document. Archive 2007-10-01
While this adds some dimension to the text, it can also clutter it, especially when used in extensive quotations, where the parenthesized Chinese is really superfluous.
Nature abhors the superfluous, yet is constrained to produce the seemingly extravagant.
There is nothing superfluous about his performance, in which primordial emotions are barely contained by his skin.
Personally, I'd rather the police keep to tormenting criminals than getting trigger-happy with the innocent. p.s. Please don't tell me that "l'eau" makes the preceding word in the title redundant - nay, superfluous and altogether unwanted: a pariah in the great thesaurus of life; an article definitely unwanted. Buggerthat Diary Entry
To him spirituous liquor is a superfluous and dangerous luxury.
If necessary, superfluous hair is to be removed by suitable depilatories, color to be restored to the pale cheeks by a lotion of chips of Brazil-wood [6] soaked in rose-water and applied with pads of cotton; or, if the face is too red, it may be blanched by the root of the cyclamen (_panis porcinus_, sowbread) dried in an oven and powdered. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
Many a hungry mouth can be fed from the leavings of the sumptuous tables of the rich and many a naked body can be clothed from the superfluous frillings and trimmings of their fine raiments.
To him spirituous liquor is a superfluous and dangerous luxury.
Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
Not least fascinating is the suggestion that deep breathing could render valium superfluous.
It is presumed that the legislature avoid superfluous or meaningless words, that it does not pointlessly repeat itself or speak in vain.
To discuss the film's last act would involve unnecessary and superfluous plot spoilers. Christianity Today
- not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
Under such conditions, God and his exhortations are therefore superfluous, and the task before the ethical philosopher is to determine why God (or anyone else) would be constrained to consider particular actions right or wrong. A Telic View of the Universe
Georgina Beyer's partner became largely superfluous as she sang along, mugged at the camera and generally hammed it up.
What might have been an endurable serial killer flick is deep-sixed by superfluous scenes and atrocious writing.
But every song is compelling: not a word wasted, not one bout of frenetic strumming superfluous.
But if they fail to prove this it seems superfluous, and indeed illogical, to require the accused to prove the contrary on a balance of probabilities.
The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail.
Yes, you'd better not meddle with the darkies if you don't want your fingers smutted, Miss Anne; for young ladies with smutty fingers, don't succeed in society very well, you'd much better attend to your fineries, and exert your superfluous reformatory energies upon one of those marvellous structures which you call a bonnet, and I call a coal-scuttle. Sister Anne's Vocation.
He may have been wrong in some of his literary judgments and ignorant in some areas of literature but he was good at getting rid of what was superfluous or phoney in a piece of writing.
Fire officers believe that experience overseas has shown the extra research to be superfluous.
superfluously, he added his silly comments to the discussion
Carver often spoke out in the House of Lords - as a critic of NATO's nuclear policy, and calling for the retention of British nuclear deterrents as superfluous.
- not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad. Xml's Blinklist.com
Nature abhors the superfluous, yet is constrained to produce the seemingly extravagant.
I think a good deal of what you call superfluous condolence would come under the head of superfluous criticism. Friends in Council — First Series
And they aren't just superfluous instruments, they make the music what it is.
Abbot's lodging; the cellarer's lodging; the poulter house: the gardner; the almary, and all other houses and lodgings not otherwise reserved, "were" deemed to be superfluous "and were committed to the custody of Sir John Whittington. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
Then pour back all the superfluous varnish into the bottle from one corner of the slide; the varnish remaining will rapidly harden, as the benzole evaporates quickly, and the hardening may be hastened by applying a little heat, but while hardening the slides should be protected from dust. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892
You could argue the CLI is superfluous and indeed unnecessary what with the beauty of its gleaming GUI and fast, responsive, intuitive control; however, the key component of quick script writing and application is wholly missing without something like PowerShell installed. Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia
Try not to clutter commercial frontages with superfluous advertising.
Because at that point, for anyone with more than a passing interest in sport, the sales patter becomes superfluous. Times, Sunday Times
Not least fascinating is the suggestion that deep breathing could render valium superfluous.
This understanding of Guo's epistemology can't hold water, for it resulted from viewing and superfluously and partially understanding only one aspect of his theory.
Pattern practice makes grammatical explanations superfluous and encourages learning by analogy.
To recount in detail their last night almost would be superfluous. Titanic - Destination disaster
It might be superfluous to recapitulate the debate between traditional Marxist-Leninists and neo-Marxists such as Immanuel Wallerstein - that would require in itself a separate inquiry.
This has been spoken of as an evidence of bravery; but, regarded in this light, it was only superfluous evidence of a fact which no one ever doubted; it really deserves better to be called foolhardiness, as Captain Penrose, who was one of the party, frankly described it in his Diary. Abraham Lincoln
Look at this broad-shouldered man with the bare muscular arms, and the thick, firm, black hair tossed about like trodden meadow-grass whenever he takes off his paper cap, and with the strong barytone voice bursting every now and then into loud and solemn psalm-tunes, as if seeking an outlet for superfluous strength, yet presently checking himself, apparently crossed by some thought which jars with the singing. Adam Bede
The latest MP3 technology compresses all superfluous parts of a sound signal to reduce the amount of memory needed to store digital information.
Start preparing your script to respond to the ’strained’ greetings you will receive from mum & dad when you are next home nothing guarantees that a post WILL be read more than an imperative “Please don’t read this link mum& dad”, in any case superfluous since its content is divulged in subsequent responses – and you told us they recommended your blog to their friends! The superficial
Z was always thought to be a superfluous, unnecessary letter.
It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage.
The rest of it appears to be superfluous verbiage to them.
That building had been an eyesore for years, and was totally superfluous since its function was to raise seedlings for planting the parks around the place with fresh flowers.
At present, when the results of the investigation of nature need only be conceived of dialectically, that is in the sense of their mutual interconnection, to arrive at a system of nature sufficient for our time, when the dialectical character of this interconnection forces itself into the metaphysically trained minds of experimental scientists, against their will, today a philosophy of nature is finally disposed of, every attempt at its resurrection would not only be superfluous, it would even be a step backwards. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy
Well I had rather follow his vein, the which was to speak simply and plainly to the common people's understanding, than to overflourish with superfluous speech, although I might thereby be counted equal with the best that ever wrote English. Early Theories of Translation
Vehicles overtook on both sides at high speed, making mirrors virtually superfluous and frequent shoulder checks imperative. Times, Sunday Times
Is the term integral or superfluous to the substance of these papers? Must read: National Academy of Sciences member says Darwinism "contributes little" to experimental biology
Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
Here, on the terrace where I sit, and where ladies in needlessly costly robes are promenading up and down to exhibit their superfluous wealth ostentatiously to one another, my ear is continuously assailed by the constant _ping, ping, ping_ of the pigeon-shooting, and my peace disturbed by the flapping death-agonies of those miserable victims. Post-Prandial Philosophy
This year, Gates seeks to end further production of the superfluous C-17 transport and kill off a second engine for the high cost, kluge-like F-35 "Joint Strike Fighter. Winslow T. Wheeler: Nightmare Budget Scenario at the Pentagon

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