Needlessly

Her prose is full of needlessly florid, cliched descriptions, securing her career as a romance novelist.

Let's not get Tom's hopes up needlessly.

You can needlessly attempt to argue with me all you want; my brain is like a spam filter.

Why worry needlessly?

I needlessly prepared?

Must you needlessly touch everything with your filthy hands?

The Book of Matthew relates an incident when Jesus was needlessly cruel to a Canaanite woman in a manner that is completely at odds with the Torah's commandment to treat strangers as "one of your own."

Stop worrying yourself needlessly.

I've spent a lot of my life struggling needlessly.

He was always needlessly anxious about his dog.

At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.

He worried needlessly about his dog.