Her prose is full of needlessly florid, cliched descriptions, securing her career as a romance novelist.
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Needlessly
Synonyms for "needlessly" (21 found)
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Translations
10 translations across 7 languages.
Hungarian
1 entries- szükségtelenül adv (in a needless manner)
Irish
2 entries- gan chall adv (in a needless manner)
- gan fáth adv (in a needless manner)
Polish
1 entries- niepotrzebnie adv (in a needless manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- desnecessariamente adv (in a needless manner)
Russian
1 entries- напрасно adv (in a needless manner)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gun fheum adv (in a needless manner)
Spanish
3 entries- desnecesariamente adv (in a needless manner)
- innecesariamente adv (in a needless manner)
- por gusto adv (in a needless manner)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Let's not get Tom's hopes up needlessly.
Source: tatoeba (2007250)
You can needlessly attempt to argue with me all you want; my brain is like a spam filter.
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Why worry needlessly?
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