superfluous
/suˈpɝflu.əs/ adjective C2- In excess of what is required or sufficient. · With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
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Peter Blewett only by sight as a small, shrewish-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones.
But on this occasion the precaution was superfluous, and everything proceeded with the utmost smoothness and politeness.
“Oh,” said Monte Cristo “it would be quite superfluous for you to tell me, for I already know it.”
“Sir,” said she, “it is superfluous for me to tell you that Valentine’s marriage is broken off, since it was here that the affair was concluded.”
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