otiose formal

From its appearance the illegible word could well be otiose, but that does not seem likely.

Moreover, it represents him as relapsing only "sometimes" into otiose speculation.

The linking commentary is often otiose and always plonking.

Your last question would then have been otiose.'

She broods on the decline of civility and uses words like "otiose" in conversation.

Section 7(4) has thus been rendered partially otiose.

This also means that it is otiose to wonder whether it might perhaps have been possible to prevent it.

The new offence of tenancy fraud is otiose.

But the process of idealising him went on: still incomplete in Malory's compilation, where he is often rather otiose and far from royal.

His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.

This proposed change was very unpopular within the Service as being pointless and otiose, as well as somehow insulting.

Therefore, although there is a substantial overlap between section 1 and section 15, section 15 is not otiose.

Eight is that otiose lummox the Triune, Gadouth.

Cynics may suggest that if it comes from Goldman Sachs a health warning or a mere caveat emptor is otiose.

Only the otiose 'Vissi d'arte' actually misfired; should she really be expected to sing it lying down?

One of the otiose Clubs "The Chennai Corporate Club" is also located nearby.

But, in reply, let me make two fundamental points which, I think, make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous.

For Flocanalog and all the other symbionts of Marineris, an analytic separation of language and perception quickly became otiose by necessity.

And Harrison tends to use the same adjectives (notably "otiose," a longtime favorite of his) so often that you wonder if he has special symbols for them on his keyboard.

The investigation, however, was rendered otiose by the impromptu flight of Slater from Port St. Louis in June 1832 and his death from exposure a few days later.

Order 1, r 6 seems an otiose provision to the effect that the application of s 76 of the Act does not extend the respective jurisdictions of judge and district judge.

That problem of otiose bureaucracy also applies to Amendment No 6. As far as Amendment No 7 is concerned, I do not see what added value it gives.

He and his staff variously describe their annual honor as being bestowed on the most pretentious, tasteless, embarrassing, otiose, self-infatuated or redundant description of the sexual act published during the past year.

'Cut out middleman's profits - buy direct from the manufacturer' is a phrase often seen in newspaper advertisements, implying that the retailing and wholesaling functions are otiose, or at least inefficient.

We may also note that it is possible for the word instantiating the subordinate element to be otiose from the point of view of the speaker or hearer or both (see Chapter 7).