Needlessly

Therefore it all just might again needlessly/tragically spill over to the real economy, like it did in August 2008, when they let the last financial crisis spill over into the real economy, and from which we are only beginning to recover. ❋ Warren Mosler (2010)

They should just hire Gary Alt. He succeeded in needlessly slaughtering the deer herd here in Pennsylvania. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whether they want soldiers "to die needlessly" is not the point. ❋ Richard (2006)

I have never understood what’s so offensive about using ‘Democrat’ as an adjective, but I don’t do it, because I see no point in needlessly antagonizing the other side. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ULA briefing was very strong, but it was obvious that the presenter didn't want to antagonize NASA needlessly, which is a moot point now anyway. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If your intention is to merely report on the controversy (which you have ably done in the body of the post), then I think your use of “racist” in the title needlessly mars the rest of the post. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Purists and propagandists alike dispute over terms needlessly; in the English language, it was indeed a massacre. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Wildenvey's version, therefore, can only be characterized as needlessly free. ❋ Martin Brown Ruud (1913)

Saying that a program manager "needlessly" deletes instruments in an attempt to stay within budget is 100% the wrong approach. ❋ Unknown (2009)

TAC said every day about 900 South Africans died "needlessly" of ❋ Unknown (2007)

I will delete comments only when they violate the rules of my blog, such as needlessly inflammatory, racist, or spam comments. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Tim Flannery's review [NYR, July 19] of John Emsley's The 13th Element mentions that in World War II the Germans refrained from using tabun nerve gas because they "needlessly" feared retaliation by the Allies with similar compounds. ❋ Richards, Guy (2001)

Nasrallah didn’t want his people to die needlessly, which is why Hezbollah encouraged men like Assem Harb to flee with their families. ❋ Thanassis Cambanis (2010)

UKIP spokesman Nigel Farage lashed out at EU rules for "needlessly" grounding flights. ❋ Unknown (2010)