needlessly
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[edit]needlessly (comparative more needlessly, superlative most needlessly)
- In a needless manner.
- To a degree or extent beyond what is needed.
- He was always needlessly anxious about his dog.
- 1902, Herbert George Wells, Anticipations:
- At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.
- Without need.
- He worried needlessly about his dog.
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[edit]in a needless manner
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