Definition of unnecessarily
: not by necessity : to an unnecessary degree
- unnecessarily harsh criticism
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All that would have done is unnecessarily pissed people off and slowed things down by maybe 60 days.
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Human rights groups say people with mental illnesses are often kept in hospitals or special institutions unnecessarily for years, isolating them from the rest of society.
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Physicians who pocket millions while taking advantage of patients, many of whom are addicted to opioids, and unnecessarily drive up health care costs for both patients and insurance providers, knowingly sacrifice the efficacy of care for greed...
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But younger generations of residents increasingly have felt the short coat unnecessarily distinguished them from other residents.
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Decades later the Fed remains unnecessarily unpredictable.
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By law, Medicare is not allowed to negotiate drug prices, which critics say results in the government spending tens of billions of dollars unnecessarily.
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But President Trump Trump’s inability to follow anyone’s advice, tendency to unnecessarily implicate himself in wrongdoing, and general capriciousness has led many a white-shoe attorney to take one look and slowly back away.
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Some in the bureau might view McCabe’s termination so close to retirement as an unnecessarily harsh and politically influenced punishment for a man who spent more than 20 years at the FBI.
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