useless words
Example Sentences
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“There are too many useless words thrown in,” she said.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019
In the title story – a truly unhinged free-form eruption of useless words – Gaddafi declares that it was an "Arab prince", not Columbus, who discovered America.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010
But having suffered to earn his doctorate, the aspiring scholar must then publish or perish, thereby swelling the torrent of useless words.
From Time Magazine Archive
And later, when she desperately needed help to save the man she loved, her father could only try to console her by repeating useless words of grave wisdom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them?
From "1984" by George Orwell
