Pleonastic in a sentence as an adjective

You can tell an article is going to be worthless when it begins with a pleonastic "so".

At the very least, TFA has come to find out what it's like to exhibit dumb, pleonastic writing style.

The term 'rational action' is therefore pleonastic and must be rejected as such.

"The truth is, most US academic prose is appalling: pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipedalian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead.

Pleonastic definitions

adjective

repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant

See also: redundant tautologic tautological