Definition of "unnecessarily" []

• Needlessly, not necessarily (adverb)
• Not by necessity. (adverb)
• To an extent beyond what is needed. (adverb)

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• "To borrow a now infamous bit of BBC phraseology, the title unnecessarily sexes up a story that stands on its on merits."
• "Newspapers of the day inveighed, nastily, against what one called an "unnecessarily imported" crisis of "ethnic criminality"."
• "Liu granted he'd used what he called unnecessarily colorful language when he wrote that Alito's record envisions an America where, among other things, a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man."