otiose lines in a play. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I'm sorry to be such a scrotum, but did you mean to type "otiose" or "obtuse"?. From Wordnik.com. ["Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."] Reference
Nothing soft, otiose, irrelevant cumbered your pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
But quotation from such passages one by one would be otiose. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
It is a hypothesis which we shall do well to dismiss as otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
In such a situation, of course, logical argument becomes otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
There follows the equally otiose inquiry if one was alone or not. From Wordnik.com. [Food] Reference
As for school librarians being elected, that's just deliberately otiose. From Wordnik.com. ["Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."] Reference
This is really quite easy, for in the essential, Administration is otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley: An Exchange] Reference
Usage: I didn't get much written last Saturday, it was a pretty otiose day. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week #26] Reference
In such circumstances paying them a salary let alone expenses seems otiose. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
Harald Astrom Eskilstuna, SwedenZakaria's fulminations against Boykin are otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: The Shape Of Things] Reference
A propos of QUANGOs, there are other elements of Government which are surely otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Another Dreary Socialist Programme] Reference
Assuming it succeeds, will the Sony Reader create a new generation of otiose readers?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
It's an old argument: since everything happens of necessity, final causes are otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
And while I have nothing against Greg Yeomans personally, his contribution was otiose. From Wordnik.com. [December « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog] Reference
I'm suprised, there's no otiose argument on the decline of M Night Shyamalan's movies yet. From Wordnik.com. [Twisted New Poster for Shyamalan's The Happening « FirstShowing.net] Reference
I think making a distinction between modern and pre-modern war is irrelevant and otiose here btw. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » July] Reference
I was not grumpily demanding that the book should contain the sort of otiose padding he refers to. From Wordnik.com. ['Zola: A Life'] Reference
Mr. BONAR LAW appended to the announcement a surely otiose explanation of the necessity of the increase. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920] Reference
It seems otiose for this blog to suggest on the 88th anniversary of the Armistice that we should not forget. From Wordnik.com. [We do not forget] Reference
Comparisons with the manner in which Harold Wilson avoided military commitment to the Vietnam War are otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
(Some, of course, may invest according to some social conscience, but for them restrictive laws will be otiose.). From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Exploitation] Reference
Use “ibid.” only when there is a long series of notes referring to the same work, making short titles otiose. From Wordnik.com. [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Journal of Medieval Military History Style Guide] Reference
On another, it has the whole attention of the Cannes Film Festival with what it would be otiose to call a hot ticket. From Wordnik.com. [The V.F. Century] Reference
Secondly, IMHO, the Demme TMC remake complements the original and pays it great tribute without being a carbon copy, and I hardly see it as otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
Instead the Tories plan to ring-fence NHS spending, thus keeping hordes of adminstrators who are otherwise otiose beavering away at nothing very much. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-14] Reference
A few days ago Julian wrote that evolution doesn't in any strict, logical sense exclude the possiblity of religious guidance... but it does make it otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Punk Rock Star Finishes His Thesis - And It's Good, Too!, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It would be otiose for me to reproduce the story here – and three other fine stories – when our readers have already read them or can look them up on the link provided. From Wordnik.com. [Is it here already?] Reference
The Law was perfectly adequate before the Hunting Act 2005 to prosecute didicoy poachers coursing their lurchers on private land and in this regard the new Act is quite otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Hobday Misses Point as Ostrich Sticks Head in Sand] Reference
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
From otiose gods, careless of human affairs, the transition was natural to a belief in no gods. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Moral Philosophy] Reference
He is, however, in part an otiose deity and can hardly be said to rule over this otherworldly realm. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
But well-meaning is a poor substitute for well-doing; especially that otiose sort of well-meaning which only means not meaning ill. From Wordnik.com. [To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work] Reference
Such an otiose form may sometimes indicate a succession of divine quasi-dynasties, somewhat as in the Greek sequence of Ouranos, Kronos. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
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