adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Begrimed by obscure use, otiose warehouses shadowed the rigid, corky bobbing of gulls.
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The linking commentary is often otiose and always plonking.
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Therefore, although there is a substantial overlap between section 1 and section 15, section 15 is not otiose .
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This class system has long been regarded as functionally otiose .
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Where else could they pick up that otiose rhetoric?