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

F. 87 The translation here is somewhat pleonastic for the sake of perspicuity; the original is clear in itself, but not to us who have no such practice.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

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)

The maru- is merely the past participle without the pleonastic termination -alla- which is used in Bihari, as explained under the Mth.-Mg. conjugation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various