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Significats de otiose en anglès

Disinclined to work or exertion.

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Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.

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Producing no result or effect.

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Ús de otiose en anglès
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed
6
Ignorant of business and entrepreneurship, they occupy the dead end, otiose and pension-orientated jobs they do.
Financial Crime and Corruption
7
His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.
Catch-22
8
But it happens to be otiose.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
9
A historian may be a theist; but, so far as his work is concerned, this particular belief is otiose.
Darwin and Modern Science
10
He told me he had only just got it, and he drifted away into otiose explanations of this fact.
A. V. Laider
11
Such a comparison is otiose.
The Irish Times
12
If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency.
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
13
As a result, it is rather otiose to do the forecast before you have concluded what mitigation is possible, he said.
The Irish Times
14
If one based one's view of his achievement on Licht, so often theatrically naive and musically otiose, the answer might well be yes.
The Guardian
15
Our voting system does not have any method of voting for or against any coalition combination, so this type of question is probably otiose.
The Irish Times
16
It was very cordial, and it appealed directly, only the style was otiose, but in matters of the first importance style is a hindrance.
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
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