would be totally unnecessary and entirely superfluous.

The illusions of metaphysics are scientifically untenable and practically unnecessary.

This trade, he said, was utterly unnecessary, as his own plantation, on which his slaves had increased rapidly by population, and others which he knew to be similarly circumstanced, would abundantly testify.

He opened his lips to speak; but she was quicker than he, and said, in a stealthy way that seemed oddly unnecessary: "You 'ave some basilic?"

It struck me as a peculiarly unnecessary exhibition of her callous fitness for the job of nurse.

These were the reasons which induced the President to introduce in the new project the provisions which he thought calculated for the attainment of so desirable an object, and which in his opinion rendered obviously unnecessary any allusion to the previous agreements referred to by Mr. Fox.

Willie swore with a curious and seemingly unnecessary bitterness, at frequent intervals, for the next hour or so.

Mr. Macaulay seems to have visited Bridgwater with a zeal worthy of a better result: for it has produced a description of the surrounding country as pompous and detailed as if it had been the scene of some grand strategic operationsa parade not merely unnecessary, but absurd, for the so-called battle was but a bungling skirmish.

The way they studied that old mangy cedar was a trifle unnecessary, unwise, she felt.

Many of the expenditures authorized by these bills are undoubtedly unnecessary, but they are passed by general consent of the members, each of whom desires to increase his popularity at home by getting public money spent in his district.

I suppose Agatha told you of the Emperor of Brazil's visit to us at 7 a.m.it was amusing to get up at six to receive an Emperor, impossible to put on much ceremony with one's garments at that unceremonious hour, and fortunately unnecessary, for His Majesty was chatty and easy.