otiose

Example Sentences

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But for Getachew Reda, president of the Tigray interim regional administration, those definitions are otiose.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2024

Other times, helped along by the accounts of my Jesuit schoolteachers, I imagined him waiting, otiose and slightly bored—restless, as he had often seemed to be in life—in the long, cosmic queue of Purgatory.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Ludicrously, it was binned in favour of a hammy and otiose version of the Beatles’ Across the Universe.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016

This is not an otiose question but rather a serious one that goes to the very root of the ethics of photojournalism, its training and practice.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2015

His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller