Thesaurus / dispensable
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Many parents cannot afford to take unpaid leave, and those who do take time off often feel pressure to return to work or worry that they will seem dispensable.
THESE MOTHERS WANTED TO CARE FOR THEIR KIDS AND KEEP THEIR JOBS. NOW THEY'RE SUING AFTER BEING FIREDELIANA DOCKTERMANMARCH 3, 2021TIMEBy the time we crawled into sleeping-bags, everything dispensable was piled alongside the depot-flag.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONAnd deferentially he stood waiting, but as if conscious of being dispensable, to be asked to take her home.
THE CONQUEST OF ROMEMATILDE SERAOWe are thus once more reminded of the distinction between essential or unavoidable relational concepts and the dispensable type.
LANGUAGEEDWARD SAPIRIt did not seem to me profitable to be killed for the sake of a sentiment which seemed weak and dispensable.
THE O'RUDDYSTEPHEN CRANEThe baron, my galling and dispensable old Hohenfels, would have arrived and scolded.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, VOL. 12, NO. 32, NOVEMBER, 1873VARIOUSThere was no middle course between coveting a woman and neglecting her as entirely dispensable.
THE KINGDOM ROUND THE CORNERCONINGSBY DAWSONThe white man's last dispensable possession had gone as a reward for the service.
TERRYCHARLES GOFF THOMSONIn commanding contrast to his first circular, this fairly seems to crowd out every dispensable expression.
LINCOLN, THE POLITICIANT. AARON LEVYHe believes that what is dispensable by the one, without loss, is dispensable by the other.
A GRAMMAR OF FREETHOUGHTCHAPMAN COHENWORDS RELATED TO DISPENSABLE
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
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