Exempel på pleonasm

• Properly speaking, “in his own thinking” is a pleonasm; every man must think for himself, no one can think for another.

• "Man-made money" is a pleonasm that I wish he would not use, because it suggests that money can be something other than man-made.

• There are several instances of pleonasm, truism, poor syntax, and mixed metaphor.

• The speech might also be considered an example of pleonasm, "the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense".

• Observe that the antiphrasis 'popular democracy' is made more cruel by the use of pleonasm.

• The title is almost a pleonasm: the watchful guardian, the careful caregiver.

• They tend to be more like the prose either because they are closely modelled on it or because of the absence from them of pleonasm.

• Draftsmen, though wrongly accused sometimes of pleonasm and excess of verbiage, do not normally waste a subsection for an unnecessary purpose.

• I am not sure whether they are a redundancy, a tautology or a pleonasm, but they are certainly superfluous.

• It is a pleonasm actually.

• Many other examples of pleonasm are redundant only if the speaker's knowledge is taken into account.

• Linguists usually call this redundancy to avoid confusion with syntactic pleonasm, a more important phenomenon for theoretical linguistics.

• A more general classification of redundancy is pleonasm, which can be any unnecessary words (or even word parts).

• Sometimes editors and grammatical stylists will use pleonasm to describe simple wordiness.

• The term pleonasm is most often, however, employed as synonymous with tautology.

• On the other hand, as is the case with any literary or rhetorical effect, excessive use of pleonasm weakens writing and speech; superfluous words distract from the content.

• In particular, pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetitionit can be used to reinforce an idea, contention or question, rendering writing clearer and easier to understand.

• See also tautology (rhetoric) and pleonasm.

• The members of a student fraternity can be called frat(ernity) boys, technically preferable to the pleonasm frat-bro(ther), and remain so for life as adults, after graduation.