otiose

IPA: ˈoʊtiˈoʊs

Having no effect.
Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.

Examples of "otiose" in Sentences

I'm sorry to be such a scrotum, but did you mean to type "otiose" or "obtuse"?
A propos of QUANGOs, there are other elements of Government which are surely otiose.
I'm suprised, there's no otiose argument on the decline of M Night Shyamalan's movies yet.
For the rest of the year, I fought with my father who felt that a piano was an otiose flamboyance of the upper classes.
Instead the Tories plan to ring-fence NHS spending, thus keeping hordes of adminstrators who are otherwise otiose beavering away at nothing very much.
The sooner we quit fiddling with otiose sanctions against Iran, the sooner we can begin crafting containment and deterrence strategies that are actually effective.
Still, I pack too much, a huge duffle crammed with triple and quadruple of everything: shirts, shorts, footwear, rainwear, and all sorts of otiose extras I know I will never use.
For all anyone knows, al-Qaida's gloating in its murderous glossy magazine, Inspire, and Niall Ferguson's talk of a caliphate are just as otiose as Blair's jawdropping exhortation, given his legacy of mayhem, for the west to show "the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief we can achieve them".