superfluity
Example Sentences
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How refreshingly meta, then, that “The Devil Wears Prada 2” — a film that seemingly had no discernible reason to exist other than to make money — directly addresses its own superfluity.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
Alongside the Spanish colonial homes, the scene is a picturesque look into wealth, opulence and superfluity that only a select few Angelenos can afford.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025
Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019
It is the rare as-told-to book, or one created in collaboration with an author-for-hire, that is well-written, but “A Piece of Light” is filled with a superfluity of penny-dreadful prose.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018
Mrs. Strong, be it understood, regarded any kind of fitting garment as a foolish superfluity.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
Vocabulary lists containing superfluity
Walden
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Jane Eyre
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The Merchant of Venice
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