Thesaurus / extraneous
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
And I worked out a way of going back and cutting out the extraneous impressions.
THE CHAMBER OF LIFEGREEN PEYTON WERTENBAKER
The last figure of the prepared divisor being 3, this is the extraneous multiplier.
She began to feel curiously jealous of these extraneous influences.
HOPE MILLSAMANDA M. DOUGLAS
Were it not for that extraneous circumstance, the showing for the wage-earner's advance would be even greater.
THE UNPOPULAR REVIEW VOL. IVARIOUS
Such were some of the extraneous subjects which the month of October brought from without.
It is too full of allusions and indirect references to all sorts of extraneous facts.
MY DISCOVERY OF ENGLANDSTEPHEN LEACOCK
I present first a few examples of plain bottles which have no extraneous plastic features.
ANCIENT ART OF THE PROVINCE OF CHIRIQUI, COLOMBIAWILLIAM HENRY HOLMES
I did it; and threw in a good deal of extraneous matter that hadn't anything to do with sugar.
WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER STORIESMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)
If the devotion is deficient in purity, determined by extraneous motives, the work will bear marks of the deficiency.
But these were immediately clipped off, as sure to impair the vigor of the plant, which could now support no extraneous offshoots.
WORDS RELATED TO EXTRANEOUS
- 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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