Definition of "unneedful" [unneedful]

• Not needful. (adjective)

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• "Immediately, he took the painter and hove it to us, bidding us tail on to it and bring the boat to shore without delay, and by this method of gaining the beach he showed wisdom; for in this wise he escaped attracting the attention of the monster by unneedful stirring of the water, as he would surely have done had he made use of an oar."
• ""Am I to understand, " asked Dr. Goldman, 'that you regard Mrs. Gitche a stabilized personality unneedful of treatment?"
• "For ten thousand years me sor - cerer-emperors of Memibone had ruled this world, a race without conscience or moral creed, unneedful of reasons for their acts of conquest, seeking no excuses for their natural malicious tendencies."