superfluous

Which raises the question: If the idea of the gloriously superfluous disappears from nature, how does it take root in the mind?

(If Nel is to answer his own questions, the presence of the witness would seem superfluous).

Mysteriously, however, no one can describe how it works better—it appears to have redundant and even superfluous parts.

Borges adds: “He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous.”

The device of reconstructing internal dialogues sometimes feels a bit forced or superfluous.

Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.

It is perhaps somewhat superfluous to say that the Russian Government at once adopted these balloons for war purposes.

If all the world did not wag his way, so much the worse for cold-blooded mercenary superfluous beings.

Having thus divined the origin of the hero, I feel that any further indication of his character would be almost superfluous.

Though the memorandum is quite superfluous, it will often put me in mind of the creator.