needlessly

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial needlessly has 1 sense

needlessly(r = adv.all) Array - without need; "it would needlessly bring badness into the world"

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THESAURUS

needlessly

aimlessly, beyond need, beyond reason, bootlessly, fecklessly, fruitlessly, futilely, overplus, pointlessly, purposelessly, redundantly, supererogatorily, superfluously, tautologously, to little purpose, to no purpose, unnecessarily, uselessly, vainly

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