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superfluously
adverb
In a superfluous manner.
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He might seem like a grinning, platitude-spewing gonk parked superfluously on the end of the judging table, but I've got a sneaky feeling Louis Walsh is actually the beating heart of X Factor.
ITS a shame, is'nt it, the way modern popular usage mistreats the apostrophe, omitting it, misplacing it or, most often, adding it superfluously in plural's as, all three, Johnson has just done.
The camera takes us into the tube of Ralston's drinking bottle as water rushes to his mouth, and later, superfluously, right inside the workings of his camcorder.
"Hopefully he'll be our number one candidate," he said, by now quite superfluously.
When the detectives turn up at a pharmacy where two people have been killed, the words "pharmacy double" hover, superfluously, in the lower part of the screen; when the men go to a house to inform someone of a death, that is noted as well.
Just as the log drew abreast of Camus he suddenly withdrew his hand, swooped it through his hair, and sneered "Too slow," adding superfluously, "Psych".
There were separate games open only to players aged fifty-five and older — superfluously, since the vast majority of the tournament's entrants were old enough to play in either division.
Superfluously, the artist having confessed, technical experts presented charts, graphs, and slides of a new test that proved the works' recent manufacture.
"I told you I ain't talking with you," he said, superfluously.
Thomas Jefferson, in "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice: For the Use of the Senate of the United States" (1801), decreed that "no one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously".
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However this question should be answered, Fodor himself was concerned enough about Wittgenstein's argument to try to show both that it did not apply to his views and apparently superfluously that it is not a good argument anyway (Fodor pp. 68 73).
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