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Definitions for unnecessarily
-ˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈnɛs əˌsɛr-un·nec·es·sar·i·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unnecessarilyadverb

    in an unnecessary manner

    "they were unnecessarily rude"

  2. unnecessarilyadverb

    without any necessity

    "this marathon would exhaust him unnecessarily"

Wiktionary

  1. unnecessarilyadverb

    Needlessly, not necessarily

  2. unnecessarilyadverb

    Not by necessity.

    He unnecessarily repeated too much of what others had covered.

  3. unnecessarilyadverb

    To an extent beyond what is needed.

    The food provided was unnecessarily generous, especially for an Oxfam event.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unnecessarilyadverb

    Without necessity; without need; needlessly.

    To abrogate, without constraint of manifest harm thereby arising, had been to alter unnecessarily, in their judgment, the antient, received custom of the whole church. Richard Hooker.

    ’Tis highly imprudent in the greatest of men, unnecessarily to provoke the meanest. Roger L'Estrange.

    These words come in without any connexion with the story, and consequently unnecessarily. William Broome.

ChatGPT

  1. unnecessarily

    Unnecessarily refers to something done without need, in excess or lacking purpose or justification. It means doing more than what is required, expected, or appropriate in a particular context, often in a way that causes inconvenience, harm or waste.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unnecessarily in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unnecessarily in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of unnecessarily in a Sentence

  1. Andy Leather:

    In the absence of surgical care, common, easily treatable illnesses become fatal, the global community can not continue to ignore this problem – millions of people are already dying unnecessarily, and the need... is projected to increase in the coming decades.

  2. Bryan Stevenson:

    We are thrilled that Mr. Hinton will finally be released because he has unnecessarily spent years on Alabama's death row when evidence of his innocence was clearly presented, the refusal of state prosecutors to re-examine this case despite persuasive and reliable evidence of innocence is disappointing and troubling.

  3. Letitia James:

    As the pandemic and our investigations continue, it is imperative that we understand why the residents of nursing homes in New York unnecessarily suffered at such an alarming rate, while we cannot bring back the individuals we lost to this crisis, this report seeks to offer transparency that the public deserves and to spur increased action to protect our most vulnerable residents.

  4. Consumer Union Schwantes:

    The organization noted that nearly 50,000 consumers joined an online petition last month favoring the FCC's privacy rules. And in a nationally representative CR Consumer Voices Survey, 65 percent of Americans said they were either slightly or not at all confident that their personal data is private and not distributed without their knowledge. Florida Sen. Bill Nelson before the vote on Wednesday said the rules put American consumers — each one of us who pay these monthly fees for their broadband service — in the driver's seat of how our personal data is used and shared. Is that too much to ask ? I don't think so. The resolution will still have to pass the House of Representatives, which it is likely to do, and then be signed by President Trump. ISPs have been under the FCC's jurisdiction only since 2015, when they werereclassified as public utilitiesunder something called Title II of the Communications Act. Meantime, web-based companies such as Amazon and Google are regulated by the Federal Trade Commission( FTC), and face less stringent requirements. Republican legislators and lobbyists from cable, telecom, and advertising industries say that difference in regulation is unfair. Sen. John Thune( R-SD) said Wednesday that the FCC had unfairly distorted the marketplace when it imposed unnecessarily onerous privacy restrictions on broadband providers while leaving the rest of the internet under the strong and successful regime at the FTC. The federal government could move authority over ISPs back to the FCC. However, that would be a complex process, and one not favored by advocacy groups, including Consumers Union. Any fondness for the FTC’s approach to privacy is merely support for dramatically weaker privacy protections favored by most corporations, the organization wrote in a letter to senators earlier this week. There is no question that consumers favor the FCC’s current broadband privacy rules. The measure passed by a 50-48 vote along party lines The Senate Thursday. To roll back the rules, Republican senators employed a legislative maneuver that prevents the FCC from adopting ‘ similar ’ rules, even far weaker ones, to protect internet users in the future.

  5. Joerg Kuhbier:

    Should the access to networks become a bottleneck again, then cuts to production costs, which is the aim of introducing more competition, would be unnecessarily hindered.

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