otiose
- s serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
otiose lines in a play - s producing no result or effect
an otiose undertaking - s disinclined to work or exertion
- Billed as satire, it opens bullish, closes bearish, but mostly just bumbles along with a portfolio full of otiose gags about Texas, the sexes (at least three), and stockbrokers .
- When Warwick Deeping is writing in his own person, he likes to use much stiff-legged literarities as "flavicomous, ecology, otiose," speaks of people "occluding" the doorway.
- Throughout the '60s they had been told they were the otiose relics of a clogged, oppressive culture, whose values would soon be flushed away by the irresistible tide of .