The phrase "appears needless" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing that something seems unnecessary or superfluous in a given context.
Example: "The additional comments on the report appears needless, as the data speaks for itself."
Alternatives: "seems unnecessary" or "appears superfluous."
The concept of hauling an ill 86-year-old man on to a golf course first thing in the morning might appear needless, or even poor taste, to some but the mutual affection between Palmer and the Masters is such that it was impossible to criticise.
The Bloomberg administration has come so far and done so much on this issue that it is disturbing to see its representatives frittering away their achievements with what appears to be needless grandstanding.
Advice given earlier this year to government by the Academy of Medical Sciences AMSsayingying that medical research is being stifled by needless bureaucracy, appears to have been heeded.
Needless to say, there appears to be a strict ban on cigarette advertising for these race meets.
That scene doesn't appear in the film, needless to say.
Under that saintly exterior is a shit-kickin' bare-knuckle prizefighter!" That scene doesn't appear in the film, needless to say.
However, this assumption appears to be poorly justified, given the heterogeneous populations in our classrooms, which needless to say are occupied by humans that bear no resemblance to an inbred line of laboratory-based model organisms.
Needless to say, a long-term perspective is difficult to assume when the word "crisis" appears daily in the financial media.
"Needless to say, I hope, we stand ready to resume discussions and negotiations at any time if it appears that this would be productive," the letter said.
Needless to say, if that is the case the fact that the original raw intelligence was funded by way of the Clinton campaign appears to be the least interesting part of this story.
