pleonastic
- s repetition of same sense in different words
`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions
- While Humphrey reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all.
- Martin also squeezes the word "perspicacious" into his first paragraph, and drops the dime "pleonastic" later on.