How To Use superfluity In A Sentence
- So, the moral element was removed from the notion of luxury and superfluity, and the quality of people was linked to the quality of the things around them.
- If our contentions are correct, it was entirely unnecessary and would have been a superfluity in the circumstances of this case to have had such a clause.
- It was a bright mess of colour and juice, squashiness and superfluity. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
- Ever since the late 1960s, there has been a superfluity of vehicles sold in the U.S. that have had pretensions of off-roadability. Jalopnik
- This is why fine writing, which is regarded as a superfluity, enters the mainstream media only when it can be translated into the prevailing terms.
- What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. The Tragedy of Coriolanus
- After a Sydney-wide ineluctable ostent — for Lo! the sky turned blood red and all took on a Martian hue — the Six Sennight Remedial Treatment for Elimination of Superfluity of the Central Circumferences for the Young At Heart Though Not in Years has arrived through the good offices of the local dak wallah. Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
- Mr. O'Connor simply shook his head, and looked sadly upon his limbs, now shrouded in a superfluity of garments, somewhat resembling a slender thread of water in a shallow summer stream, nearly wasted away, and surrounded by an unproportionate extent of channel. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
- Having an outside force influence him was a jarring superfluity.
- In a definitive show of superfluity, they tried selling me tanning lotion.
