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Otiose
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1. otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
Example Sentences:'otiose lines in a play''advice is wasted words''a pointless remark''a life essentially purposeless''senseless violence'
2. futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing
producing no result or effect
Example Sentences:'a futile effort''the therapy was ineffectual''an otiose undertaking''an unavailing attempt'
3. faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
disinclined to work or exertion
Example Sentences:'faineant kings under whose rule the country languished''an indolent hanger-on''too lazy to wash the dishes''shiftless idle youth''slothful employees''the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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