All 4 Uses
superfluous
in
Steppenwolf
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- We were a superfluous, irresponsible lot of talented chatterboxes for whom reality had no meaning.†
- You will now erase this superfluous reflection, my dear friend.†
- I realized that the thousands of men in black were the players of all those notes and parts in his scores which according to divine judgment were superfluous.†
- I saw myself as a dead-weary pilgrim, dragging myself across the desert of the other world, laden with the many superfluous books I had written, and all the articles and essays; followed by the army of compositors who had had the type to set up, by the army of readers who had had it all to swallow.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(superfluous) more than is needed, desired, or required
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)