Example Sentences

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You’re free to deplore the unnecessariness and intra-redundancy of “irregardless,” but there’s no point in pretending it isn’t a word.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022

I love their weird, ephemeral nature, their maximalist unnecessariness.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2018

A child of educated parents is told in the novel that the key to success is “to forget what one ought not to remember … to recognise the unnecessariness of human emotions”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017

I even began to agree with 'er upstairs, about the unnecessariness of it.

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2013

Basically, she looks like she’s excused herself from the proceedings of life’s unnecessariness.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali