pleonastic

Example Sentences

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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

Pleonasm in the syntax of pronouns.—In the following sentences the words in italics are pleonastic: 1.

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

"They returned back again to the same city from whence they came forth": the five words in italics are redundant or pleonastic.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly

If we will have it to be, "Whatsoever things he doeth, they shall prosper;" the pronoun they appears to be pleonastic.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold