Unnecessary and unwarranted.
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Examples for "needless "
Examples for "needless "
1 The result is needless vision loss, a conference in Dublin has heard.
2 It was 15 years ago, and, needless to say, we skipped breakfast.
3 Personal distaste, needless to say, bears no necessary relationship to scientific validity.
4 Labor unions were needless then, and general strikes out of the question.
5 I do understand your concern, but I tell you it is needless .
1 Lest I appear gratuitous , let me step you through some recent examples.
2 Comey's statement was gratuitous ; carelessness is not a violation of federal law.
3 General, gratuitous criticism is unacceptable. The meeting is set for August 27.
4 The extinction of species has been involved in the most gratuitous mystery.
5 He could negotiate the distance; but anything else was a gratuitous insult.
1 The broken marble chimney-place still remains, mutely protesting against the uncalled - for violence.
2 He thereby voiced a commentary patently uncalled - for , as Mr. Pope afterward reflected.
3 They applauded with what now seems to me uncalled - for fervor, but then!
4 Everything that's finished and over, all deaths seem to me uncalled - for , unhappy, undeserved.
5 L'Allemand as she rolled down some uncalled - for pagoda steps in the death scene.
6 My uncalled - for act had brought a swift flush of anger to her cheek.
7 HOMOEOPATHY is an uncalled - for aggression upon an unoffending doctrine and its peaceful advocates.
8 There also is an uncalled - for characterization of Sarah Jessica Parker as a horse.
9 He was full of vague, stupid promptings towards an uncalled - for intercourse.
10 John was aware now that his friends were angry at his uncalled - for statements.
11 I hope you don't consider my assertion uncalled - for , he added hastily.
12 He was staring at her in a most uncalled - for manner.
13 He left; and Captain Frank began to try to quiet down this uncalled - for perturbation.
14 Such an unprofessional and uncalled - for expression of opinion was a new experience to him.
15 Mrs. Cary smarted under what she felt to be an unjust and uncalled - for attack.
16 As you say, I hope nothing will happen to justify my perhaps uncalled - for nervousness.
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