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

The phrase "zephyr breeze," in the opening stanza, strikes us as a trifle pleonastic; since a zephyr is itself a breeze; not a quality of a breeze.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

The expression in our liturgy, for Jesus Christ his sake, which is merely a pleonastic one, is the only foundation for this assertion.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton