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

We have, therefore, to trace the rise and development of what may be forcibly expressed by the apparently pleonastic phrase human ecclesiasticism.

From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)

Certainly the strenuous son of Menoetius is quite dead,— for the word "quite" is pleonastic after the Attic fashion.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Moss, corrected and purged of some of its colloquial pleonastic forms of expression.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox