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

A pleonastic compound; a skiff is a boat.

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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)

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 Jennings, James