Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unnecessary manner; without necessity; needlessly; superfluously.
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- adverb
Needlessly , notnecessarily - adverb Not by necessity.
- adverb To an extent beyond what is needed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unnecessary manner
- adverb without any necessity
Etymologies
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Examples
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To borrow a now infamous bit of BBC phraseology, the title unnecessarily sexes up a story that stands on its on merits.
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Newspapers of the day inveighed, nastily, against what one called an "unnecessarily imported" crisis of "ethnic criminality".
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Liu granted he'd used what he called unnecessarily colorful language when he wrote that Alito's record envisions an America where, among other things, a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Multiple standards would also result in unnecessarily high costs incurred in writing ‘bridge’ code to connect different products, and things like data migration.
Prodyut Bora's Blog on Open Standards Venky 2009
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Malvolio says: uh_clem: The billions of dollars being wasted and thousands of people dying unnecessarily is the status quo.
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Multiple standards would also result in unnecessarily high costs incurred in writing ‘bridge’ code to connect different products, and things like data migration.
Archive 2009-07-13 Venky 2009
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The billions of dollars being wasted and thousands of people dying unnecessarily is the status quo.
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March 16, 2010, 4: 21 pm yankev says: uh_clem: The billions of dollars being wasted and thousands of people dying unnecessarily is the status quo.
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It is to save money, and I do not believe in unnecessarily wasting natural resources when there are cost effective ways to reduce the use.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Interview with Glenn Beck 2010
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I believe mainstreamers box themselves in unnecessarily by excluding a teleological possibility a priori.
Comparing Teleological Predictions with their Non-teleological Counterparts 2007
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