otiose


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o·ti·ose

 (ō′shē-ōs′, ō′tē-)
adj.
1. Lazy; indolent.
2. Of no use; pointless or superfluous: It is otiose to review what happened when the events are so well-known.
3. Ineffective; futile. See Synonyms at vain.
[Latin ōtiōsus, idle, from ōtium, leisure.]
o′ti·ose′ly adv.
o′ti·os′i·ty (-ŏs′ĭ-tē) n.

otiose

(ˈəʊtɪˌəʊs; -ˌəʊz)
adj
1. serving no useful purpose: otiose language.
2. rare indolent; lazy
[C18: from Latin ōtiōsus leisured, from ōtium leisure]
otiosity, ˈotioseness n

o•ti•ose

(ˈoʊ ʃiˌoʊs, ˈoʊ ti-)

adj.
1. being at leisure; idle.
2. ineffective or futile.
3. superfluous or useless.
[1785–95; < Latin ōtiōsus at leisure]
o′ti•ose`ly, adv.
o`ti•os′i•ty (-ˈɒs ɪ ti) o′ti•ose`ness, n.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.otiose - serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
superfluous, wasted, pointless, purposeless, senseless
worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
2.otiose - producing no result or effectotiose - producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"
futile, unavailing, ineffectual
useless - having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"
3.otiose - disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
faineant, indolent, slothful, work-shy, lazy
idle - not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"

otiose

adjective
Lacking value, use, or substance:
empty, hollow, idle, vacant, vain.
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She wore her hair now in an enormous pompador and had discarded the blue ribbon bows of auld lang syne, but her face was as freckled, her nose as snubbed, and her mouth and smiles as wide as ever.
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The objection I defend shows that authorial intentions are surplus or otiose.
Surplus, authorial intentions, and hypothetical intentionalism
Just as utilitarianism's cost-benefit calculations are otiose when explaining how mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters relate to each other in families, so too, Fisher argues, for societies as a whole.
Fisher, David. Morality and War: Can War Be Just in the Twenty-First Century?
Doubtless there was liberal foot shuffling and nervous laughter while they hovered over the fragrant steam billowing from their mugs, since Jocelyn, fed up with her husband's puerile antics and otiose ways, and self-conscious of her grubby living room and old housedress, somewhat fancied the sheriff as well.
Big Cats of Britain
Although it is natural to draw negative implications from positive grants of power, we cannot, from that conclusion alone, determine which powers ought to be subject to implications or what the content of those implications ought to be because it is not always obvious what limits need to be imposed on a power to prevent another power being rendered otiose.
The role of negative implications in the interpretation of Commonwealth legislative powers
In the revised Christian understanding, Jewish food becomes not just the product of finicky and otiose regulations, but actually impure, a threat to Christian purity.
Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law
Early on, revision is clearly defined, eschewing figurative connotations for plainer and more practical terms: "a study of laborious, belated, even otiose changes, made without reference to the linguistic 'felicity' or basic communicability of the original version" (15).
The Work of Revision
Section 96 does not exactly render such restrictions otiose, but it makes them relatively impotent.
Reimagining fiscal federalism: Section 96 as a transitional provision
So, in the absence of an argument for relativism, Chapter 2 looks otiose to me.
Agustin Rayo, The Construction of Logical Space
Even as Machiavelli rejected the otiose Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity, and preached a new ideal virtue that would gain for men the sort of happiness they really want, he did show himself Christ-like in one particular: he brought not peace but a sword.
Bach the transcendent
On the one hand, the most otiose of such risks, the inability of the U.
The bumpy year ahead
Over the next few weeks, Peers are likely to bark out loud their warnings about this misconceived piece of otiose legislation.
EU vote will cause more problems than it solves

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