pleonastic
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The title’s pleonastic fourth word is the giveaway.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
While Humphrey reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
First E. M. Oh, I know you ape the casuist, and love the pleonastic, But how tackle our taxation in a manner really drastic With a Revenue declining!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 by Various
In the west we say therefore theeäzam here, theeäzamy here, and thizzam here for these, or these here; and sometimes without the pleonastic and unnecessary here.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
It is formed by the addition of the Prakrit pleonastic suffix -illa-, which was not used by the Prakrit of the Midland, but was common elsewhere.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
