`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

So it could be called pleonastic or tautological, but not an oxymoron.    From Wordnik.com.  [GeekLikeMe.net] Reference

So-called pleonastic ˜ne™ in French might be thought to be an example of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structured Propositions] Reference

Gory mace wet with &c. the original is pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

Reply pleonastic information » Is RSS doomed? says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why RSS will never “break through” « Squash] Reference

This, however should be pleonastic with reference to what follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Suddhah which would be pleonastic in view of what follows in the second line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

A pleonastic entity, for him, is an entity that falls under a pleonastic concept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propositions] Reference

In fact, one of his ideal-typical action types is the pleonastic "rational action.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Austrian Economics + Anthropology = Understanding of the Social World - The Austrian Economists] Reference

And besides, he moved from “skin color” to the pleonastic people who practice the Muslim faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Buchanan Argues For Immigration Moratorium To Preserve White Dominance] Reference

The udaka in kalodaka should be taken as meaning stream or river otherwise ahoratrajalena would be pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

If (20) is true, John is easily pleased; or using a pleonastic subject, it is easy (for someone) to please John.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logical Form] Reference

Martin also squeezes the word "perspicacious" into his first paragraph, and drops the dime "pleonastic" later on.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT A1: Sesquipedalian!!!! - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

It's almost pleonastic to say the civil service resists change, just as it is to say that they're self-interested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despite its reputation, the civil service recognises the need for cuts] Reference

Expressions like “very unique” or “more unique” are supposed to be pleonastic at best, and probably just nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Very Unique Post] Reference

Certainly the strenuous son of Menoetius is quite dead, — for the word “quite” is pleonastic after the Attic fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Perhaps, as Axel Hägerström thought, “contin - gent thing,” “finite thing,” and “finite reality” are pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGNOSTICISM] Reference

Thus seems to be the true meaning, otherwise avekshya would be pleonastic, abhutagatim is bhutasamplavaparyantam, i.e., till the destruction of all beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Is it then pleonastic to speak of "radioactive potassium"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3] Reference

Why do we have to put up with this latest pleonastic atrocity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3] Reference

Kitchen-sink paella and pleonastic etymologic Sunday morning musings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Bianchi] Reference

Is there not something pleonastic in the title "Fantaisie-Impromptu?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

Moss, corrected and purged of some of its colloquial pleonastic forms of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference

The Oxford English Dictionary itself goes a little further and calls it "pleonastic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference

Thus, it would not be pleonastic to speak of radioactive potassium if such a distinction were being made.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3] Reference

It's such an outrageously bizarre wine, I find it hard to describe without slipping into pleonastic apocolypticisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [LawandStyle.ca] Reference

French name Fosse, whence the apparently pleonastic Fosdyke and the name of Verdant Green's friend, Mr. Four-in-hand Fosbrooke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Criticism, as usual, detracts from the major issues by inapropos remarks, in this case on the pleonastic, "He did so -- so he did.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

" he suggested simply, not wishing to wax pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

It is certainly pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

The original is pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

This verse is, no doubt, pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Beerbohm Tree is pleonastic, from Ger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The first line is evidently pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

A pleonastic compound; a skiff is a boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rime of the ancient mariner] Reference

Moor still has, so that Fenimore is pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

'Ghoram', 'ugram', 'mahabhayam', are pleonastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference