superfluity
Example Sentences
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Thankfully, YA novelist Robin Wasserman’s 2016 adult debut, “Girls on Fire,” boasts a superfluity of violently intense female friendship to tide us over until Season 3.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023
But, a little paradoxically, the collection is most valuable when it’s proving its own superfluity: The best material is what made it onto the completed record.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022
With “Meal Ticket,” the Coens drive to ironic extremes a notion that John Ford placed at the center of several movies: the impotence and superfluity of cultural refinement in the raw and rugged West.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 14, 2018
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
“My learned friend does not appear to have gained a great deal by his superfluity of interruption”, remarked the Solicitor-General suavely, and the Court laughed loudly.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.