Definition of Pleonasm
to use more words than necessary
Examples of Pleonasm in a sentence
His book was mostly pleonasm because half of it was filled with unnecessary wording. π
Instead of getting straight to the central idea, she used pleonasm because she thought more words made it better. π
Her pleonasm was a page-long definition, but it could be summed up as meaning βThe sun is shining.β π
The editor read the four thousand page book and realized it was mostly pleonasm. π
Because the girl told a lie, she tried using pleonasm and useless words to crawl her way out of it. π
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