Synonyms for needlessly
need·less·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. needlesslyadverb

   without need

   "it would needlessly bring badness into the world"

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1. List of paraphrases for "needlessly":

   unnecessarily, pointlessly, unduly, uselessly

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1. Mark DeBofsky:

   It strikes me as needlessly cruel.

2. Tim Phillips:

   The Trump administration has taken some incredibly positive steps for the American economy, but tariffs will undercut that progress and needlessly hamstring our full economic potential. There are better ways to negotiate trade deals than by punishing American consumers and businesses with higher cost.

3. Vaselech Lyons:

   It's not about the outcome, you don't get to save every patient, but it's about what you do with the outcome, frank Gabrin lost Frank Gabrin life needlessly because if Frank Gabrin'd had the equipment -- Frank Gabrin's Frank Gabrin, Frank Gabrin knew how to protect Frank Gabrin.

4. Paul Ryan:

   Obviously we’re in favor of repealing the individual mandate, but we didn’t want to needlessly complicate the passage of tax reform, so we want to see the Senate go first and see if they can get that done and then we’ll discuss whether or not it gets included at the end [in conference].

5. Mark Lebovitch:

   We are confident that no court of equity would let Vista and Goldman enjoy windfalls on account of a reckless share count error while Tibco's shareholders needlessly suffer the loss of $100 million of the value of their company.