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
Moor still has, so that Fenimore is pleonastic.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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 William Cowper
Pleonasm in the syntax of pronouns.—In the following sentences the words in italics are pleonastic: 1.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
