3 example sentences using otiose.

Otiose used in a sentence

Otiose in a sentence as an adjective

It's that any such connection has become otiose.

It seems a bit otiose to complain about the awkward legacy effects of line break characters on a computer when we're still using querty keyboards.

I do feel that the book had the effect of popularizing the insinuation that trainspotting is a futile, otiose pursuit, where as for many people it is a pleasearuble, fulfilling hobby with some of the same evocations that birdwatching does.

Otiose definitions

adjective

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"

See also: pointless purposeless senseless superfluous wasted

adjective

producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

See also: futile ineffectual unavailing

adjective

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"

See also: faineant indolent lazy slothful work-shy