Sentence example with the word 'otiose'

otiose

abortive, barren, flimsy, fruitless, inapplicable, lumpen, off duty, profitless, superficial, unfit, unsuitable

Definition adj. serving no useful purpose

Last update: August 21, 2015


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The spelling of Late Egyptian is very extraordinary, full of false etymologies, otiose signs, &c., the old orthography being quite unable to adapt itself neatly to the profoundly modified language; nevertheless, this clumsy spelling is exp1~essive, and the very mistakes are instructive as to the pronunciation.   [Please select]

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It is a hypothesis which we shall do well to dismiss as otiose.   [Please select]

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The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose.   [Please select]

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Many beliefs which we quite sincerely hold are what have been called 'otiose beliefs'; we do not by an effort of the will realize them sufficiently strongly for them to affect action.   [Please select]

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It is when people are immovable in otiose self-satisfaction, when the air is still and when lethargy creeps over the whole body of humanity, that the face of Dr.   [Please select]

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