superfluous
Example Sentences
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Italians mastered how to create a food culture built around comfort and family without being superfluous.
From Salon
They flesh out the narrative just slightly enough not to feel entirely superfluous.
From Salon
The recordings were just as funny and weird and interesting as I remembered them; they didn’t seem dated, they didn’t seem superfluous, they weren’t something I was going to grow out of.
From Salon
“Everything in the cabin, whether or not it made it into the final movie, was used and touched. There was nothing superfluous, really.”
From Los Angeles Times
That final scene seems superfluous, but as for the rest of the movie: Its audacious energy is more apparent than ever.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
