superfluous

• Quite different is the battle for the superfluous--for ambition, privilege, inclination, luxury. —  The Simple Life
• For a climb over a glacier, the very thickest shoes are absolutely necessary; beyond these, all else seems superfluous to me, and the superfluous is the chief burden of travel We were gathered about the deck in little groups. —  Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
• A number of atheistical philosophers have courageously come forward and assured us that the hypothesis of a deity as the creator and preserver of the universe is quite superfluous, and that all things came into being or have existed from eternity without the help of any divine spirit, and that they will continue to exist without it to the end, if end indeed there is to be. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
• 'Tis true that I always find superfluity superfluous, and observe a kind of trouble even in abundance itself. —  The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 17
• "[95] It would certainly be superfluous, after all that has been presented heretofore, to add any further evidence of the meaning that was attached to these expressions by their authors. —  The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

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