needlessly

Example Sentences

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Wingtech representatives responded that the Dutch intervention was "incomprehensible" and meant the row "degenerated needlessly".

From Barron's

While it concedes communication was poor, it says it didn't want to worry patients needlessly before the facts were established.

From BBC

His debut single, Sign Of The Times, was a ponderous and needlessly long ballad that entered the charts at number one purely on the basis of Styles' celebrity.

From BBC

Privately, bankers on each side were blaming the other for needlessly slowing down the negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those renovations raised a brief ruckus over the summer after Administration officials such as Russ Vought of the Office of Management and Budget accused the Fed of running over budget on a needlessly grandiose project.

From The Wall Street Journal