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o·ti·ose

(ō′shē-ōs′, ō′tē-)

adj.

1. Lazy; indolent.

2. Of no use; pointless or superfluous: It is otiose to review what happened when the events are so well-known.

3. Ineffective; futile. See Synonyms at vain.

[Latin ōtiōsus, idle, from ōtium, leisure.]

o′ti·ose′ly adv.

o′ti·os′i·ty (-ŏs′ĭ-tē) n.

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otiosely

(ˈəʊʃɪəʊslɪ; ˈəʊʃɪəʊzlɪ)

adv

in an otiose manner

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However, the poem is also relentlessly glitch-rich, recommending S Club 7 to fans of Gang of Four, repeatedly mispluralizing Aphex Twin, and otiosely suggesting bands that we might not "liken." By thus foregrounding the system's errancy, Hilson sets the poem up as a rebuke to the kind of accelerationism that--at its most extreme-would cede the human to the technological singularity.

Jeff Hilson, Latanoprost Variations

By contrast the Fifth Concerto, in E flat, is otiosely grand, and the tonal behaviour during the first movement gives the game away early on: this was to be Rubinstein's 'Emperor'.