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
Without the mellifluous elocution of a Cicero—free from pleonastic parade—he spoke forcibly, reasoned closely, demonstrated clearly, deduced conclusively.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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
Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
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