| It is presumed that the legislature avoid superfluous or meaningless words, that it does not pointlessly repeat itself or speak in vain. |
| The anachronisms remind us, pointlessly, that the play is a modern construct. |
| She raised one of those pointlessly anorexic cigarettes to her pouting lips and leaned in closer to me. |
| Don't they become fifth wheels, spinning pointlessly in relation to the processes responsible for human action? |
| Hospitals could be pointlessly officious on such matters as visiting rights for parents. |
| It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied. |
