needlessly

[need-lis-lee]

adverb

1. in a way that is unnecessary or without a cause or need.

Example Sentences

This backsliding flies in the face of how much progress has been made to stop people from dying needlessly.

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“You mean Bertha the ostrich?” she replied needlessly, to hide her disappointment.

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"I'm not denying that the situation got out of control, nor that many lives were lost needlessly. But I never issued any order to fire on unarmed civilians," she said.

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Mr. Acosta resigned—needlessly, we said at the time, because the plea deal at least guaranteed a felony conviction and Epstein served 13 months in jail.

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“It’s after 40 days of wandering in the wilderness, and making the American people suffer needlessly, that some Senate Democrats finally have stepped forward to end the pain,” Johnson said.

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