Superfluousness

The superfluousness of RN aside, the fact that Comcast is a partner in this venture should concern fans of real news. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In about two years, stories like this will seem quaint, if they don't enrage you at their superfluousness. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

I wonder if anyone else is like me a bit worried by the blatant superfluousness of the word both in expressions like the one I most recently heard attributed to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton viz ...both America and China need to work together. ❋ DC (2009)

So, he gets sent to kill a dragon, given his superfluousness. ❋ Blue Tyson (2009)

And while no one would argue that 840 pages of cash-flush ad sales wasn't uncommon pre-2008, the seeming superfluousness and excess of transcontinental travel and endless re-shoots of $5,000 dresses are balanced by surprisingly long hours, bags under the eyes, and two very different levels of perfectionism that, come press time, leave both the 59-year-old Wintour and 68-year-old Coddington exhausted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The discussion of the superfluousness of a single phrase of the the 1st amendment ignores the argument that the first amendment itself is superfluous. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The handout is for you, you magnum opus of superfluousness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While I wasn't as enthusiastic as you over "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," I totally agree with you about Cruz, and about the superfluousness of the narration. ❋ Ed Howard (2009)

It doesn't feel like I've released that much inanity and superfluousness into cyberspace. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Seriousness or superfluousness are irrelevant distinctions to be made regarding games. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

I merely suggested the superfluousness of comparing the general population with world leaders. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Design will, in such cases, play no immediate mechanistic explanatory role, suggesting its superfluousness. ❋ Ratzsch, Del (2005)

Convinced of the superfluousness of words, perhaps he confounded them all in the same category, placing the same estimate on a thought nobly expressed as on a sally of coarse wit. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Only some thirty and summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Every Freudian idea, it turns out, suffers from several of the following deadly flaws: vagueness (no determinate consequences can be predicted by its use), excessiveness (the explained phenomena can be accounted for more satisfactorily by more plausible suppositions), logical dependency on other dubious notions, and superfluousness (the explained phenomena are themselves illusory products of the theory). ❋ Blum, Harold P. (1994)

He has about him a suggestion of awkward superfluousness that is subtly consistent with his duplicate announcement of himself. ❋ Agnes H. Morton (N/A)

This superfluousness (unless we apply Voltaire's saying, "_Le superflu, chose bien nécessaire_" to dictionaries also) is the result, we suppose, of the rivalry of publishers, who have done their best to persuade the public that numerosity is the chief excellence in works of this kind, and that whoever buys their particular quarto may be sure of an honest pennyworth and of owning a thousand or two more words than his less judicious neighbors. ❋ Various (N/A)

"the purchaser should [avoid] [asking] for superfluous [information]" ❋ Lbcfirepie (2018)

The second [identical] definition of the same [word was] utterly superfluous: [the third], even more so. ❋ The Horn (2006)

May you have superfluous [dreams] [tonite]; I wish you superfluous weatlh, joy, [peace], etc. ❋ Yk3 (2004)

"That [comment] about your [wang] [issues] were completely Superfluous." ❋ Tricky (2003)

Guy: These [ribbons] are [superfluous] Girl: no they [aren]’t ❋ Blah Blah 3215 (2019)

Person 1: "You know, some people consider me a genius." Person 2: "Yeah right! I've seen garden [hoses] with more [braincells] then you." Person 1: "[How very] superfluous of you." Person 2: "You have absolutely no idea what that means, do you?" Person 1: "..." ❋ Shquiggles (2009)

superfluous [superfly], superfluouss [sexy], superfluous [superstar] ❋ Terryl (2010)

There was that one [badguy] from that [bond] [film] who had a superfluous papula. ❋ Anarchy_Creator (2005)

Person 1 : "Where's Dave?" Person 2 : "He's been [upstairs] superfluous internetting for like 2 hours now - lets try and guess what stupid and [pointless] facts he's [learnt]" ❋ Tedsville (2010)

"hey [Brendon] what is that you are wearing on your hand?" "its a [superfluous thong] I just found over by that beer [tent]" ❋ Jikella (2009)