unnecessary

Definition:
1. Not necessary.
2. Not needed; more than is needed.

Use 'unnecessary' in a sentence:

• 1. Please, Mary, this is all so unnecessary.
• 2. I felt that we were taking unnecessary risks.
• 3. Lozanov experimented with teaching by direct suggestion during sleep, hypnosis and trance states, but found such procedures unnecessary.
• 4. We suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.
• 5. While this makes a lot of sense, it results in many lion deaths that otherwise would have been unnecessary.
• 6. But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.
• 7. How can employers use social media information to their advantage while avoiding unnecessary risks?
• 8. This will prevent unnecessary accidents and loss of life.
• 9. A union would infuse unnecessary conflict into the company's employee relations.
• 10. The cooling wind swept through out bedroom windows, making air conditioning unnecessary.
• 11. The rule is intended to save the company the money it might otherwise spend on medically unnecessary procedures.
• 12. The press, making a mountain out of a molehill, precipitated an unnecessary economic crisis.
• 13. He tries to draw unnecessary attention to himself.
• 14. One of the biggest myths in the last year is that social media experts make PR obsolete and unnecessary.
• 15. I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paperwork.
• 16. You might want to find and prune an application's unnecessary files.
• 17. The pity is that it was all completely unnecessary.
• 18. It accused her of not respecting the past and it had some personal stuff that seemed unnecessary.
• 19. Use a good spam filter to remove the truly unnecessary mail.
• 20. All fast food chains should reduce unnecessary packaging, he added.
• 21. Cut off the unnecessary twigs and branches.
• 22. Many school have strict restrictions on students' clothes, which I think is unnecessary.
• 23. He found it unnecessary for us to stay behind.
• 24. Prune out any unnecessary details.
• 25. It's unnecessary to go into details.
• 26. In infrared imaging system, all false and unnecessary signal are called noise.
• 27. It prompted employees to overcharge for work and to complete unnecessary repairs on a companywide basis.
• 28. The fact that few in China appeared to heed the call for an egyptian-style revolt may have been taken as proof that harsh tactics work, not that they are unnecessary.
• 29. For pants without that crease (and many with it), pleats are unnecessary; for pants that need the pleat, they only need one.
• 30. As we are old friends, it is totally unnecessary to stand on ceremony.
• 31. He spoke fluently and without unnecessary hesitations.
• 32. The British press, making a mountain out of a molehill, precipitated an unnecessary economic crisis.
• 33. The TSA cannot continue diverting resources into underused PreCheck lanes while most of the traveling public suffers in unnecessary lines.
• 34. I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paper work.
• 35. The city council has been trying to prune unnecessary costs from its list.
• 36. If you factor in the projected rates of technological change, either your skills will become unnecessary, or your industry outdated.
• 37. They viewed his actions as unnecessary.
• 38. Teenage boys at this stage often begin to take unnecessary risks.
• 39. This can create unnecessary delays as you hold meetings trying to achieve consensus.
• 40. In a market where there appears to be a surplus, the common mistake is to tack on too many unnecessary requirements.
• 41. He accused Diana of making an unnecessary fuss.
• 42. All this fuss is totally unnecessary.
• 43. I think your writing would be improved if you pruned away some of those unnecessary adjectives.
• 44. That last comment was a little unnecessary, wasn't it?
• 45. We should trim off the unnecessary parts of our spending.
• 46. In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.
• 47. You could have spared yourself an unnecessary trip by phoning in advance.
• 48. They will be concerned to cut back expenditure on unnecessary items.
• 49. There could be a serious loss of efficiency through unnecessary duplication of resources.
• 50. The barbaric slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
• 51. The slaughter of whales is unnecessary and inhuman.
• 52. They were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
• 53. The accountant checked this unnecessary spending in good time.
• 54. I hate unnecessary waste.