otiose

How To Use otiose In A Sentence

• My view of addiction is that once you have acknowledged it, once you have seen it within yourself, then such debates become otiose.
• The use of the word 'recumbent' is surely otiose after the word 'recline'.
• The great houses, for many of which a musical chapel establishment had become otiose, continued to support professional musicians for entertainment and for the teaching of their children and servants.
• Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
• He submitted that the meaning of the phrase cannot simply be merged with the requirement for complete crystal submersion in the silicone layer, as that would render it otiose.
• For the rest of the year, I fought with my father who felt that a piano was an otiose flamboyance of the upper classes. Moondog
• The sooner we quit fiddling with otiose sanctions against Iran, the sooner we can begin crafting containment and deterrence strategies that are actually effective. Michael Hughes: Who Cares If Iran Goes Nuclear?
• I'm suprised, there's no otiose argument on the decline of M Night Shyamalan's movies yet. Twisted New Poster for Shyamalan's The Happening « FirstShowing.net
• But a funny thing happened this week: in our final fling for the year, the props came pouring in from all over, and suddenly, this whole enterprise doesn't seem quite so otiose.
• I make no comment: anything I say would be otiose in the face of a work of such unique genius.