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[ adverb ] without need

Examples

"it would needlessly bring badness into the world"

Used in print

(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

To greet them with repulsion would turn what before was neutral into something bad ; it would needlessly bring badness into the world ; and even on subjectivist assumptions that does not seem very bright .

Related terms

gratuitous gratuitous

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