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pleonasm

[ US /ˈpɫiəˌnæzm/ ]
NOUN
  1. using more words than necessary
    a tiny little child

How To Use pleonasm In A Sentence

  • The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm.
  • He doesn't say how long ‘lengthy’ is, but as ‘a lengthy sermon’ is a pleonasm, and as he's too good a writer to commit such an atrocity, one suspects pretty long.
  • Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown. L'Univers de Chesterton
  • ‘Obsessive writer’ is a pleonasm if ever there was one.
  • The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm, a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression.
  • For all her pleonasm, for all her longwinded babbling, for all her pathetic redundancy, there is still so much that she will never, ever articulate.
  • And ‘hackneyed cliché’ is itself a pleonasm.
  • Ce livre, L'univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown. Chesterton et ses paradoxes
  • No 'jargon ridden pleonasm' here, as Martin's friend Evan might observe, and no turgid torpidity either. WalesOnline - Home
  • He takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
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