"needlessly" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From needless + -ly.",
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      "form": "more needlessly",
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        "In a needless manner."
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          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "szükségtelenül"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "gan chall"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "gan fáth"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "desnecessariamente"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "naprasno",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "напрасно"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
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          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "gun fheum"
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        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a needless manner",
          "word": "innecesariamente"
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          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "es",
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          "_dis1": "97 1 3",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "in a needless manner",
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          "text": "He was always needlessly anxious about his dog.",
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          "ref": "1902, Herbert George Wells, Anticipations:",
          "text": "At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.",
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        "To a degree or extent beyond what is needed."
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        "Without need."
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "unnecessarily"
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  "etymology_text": "From needless + -ly.",
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      "form": "more needlessly",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most needlessly",
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        "superlative"
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      "glosses": [
        "In a needless manner."
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          "text": "At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.",
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        "To a degree or extent beyond what is needed."
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        "Without need."
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    {
      "word": "unnecessarily"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "szükségtelenül"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "gan chall"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "gan fáth"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "desnecessariamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naprasno",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "напрасно"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "gun fheum"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "innecesariamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "word": "desnecesariamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a needless manner",
      "tags": [
        "Peru"
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "needlessly"
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