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be extraneous
adjective
Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
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"Those would be extraneous details".
I seemed, as a woman, to be extraneous.
There may be extraneous details that complicate a story, without necessarily contradicting its main argument.
About how it would interfere, how it would be extraneous — at best a waste of time, at worst a resistance.
(Of course, the whole point of Calvinism is that no human action can be extraneous to God's plans).
In both cases, the songs in his plays never seem to be extraneous, though their reasons for being there can be complex.
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The effort is extraneous.
Slushy details are extraneous.
"It's extraneous to the matter at hand".
Nothing is designed to look pretty, and nothing is extraneous.
"They were extraneous parts in the machine that was society".
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