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. Stephanie Patterson Gilbert:

   We are down to our last remaining funds, and we have found most aid programs frustratingly slow, needlessly complicated and inadequate to actually do much good.

2. Prince Harry:

   One tragic issue in particular is the shame and stigma linked to HIV, this causes thousands of children to needlessly die each year because they're keeping their illness a secret and not getting the medical attention they need.

3. 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].

4. Mark DeBofsky:

   It strikes me as needlessly cruel.

5. Mollie Hemingway:

   The reason people are talking about Trump is because everyone knows that Putin didn't dare move on Ukraine when he was in powerfor a reason, trump was tougher on Russia where it mattered, including bolstering our energy production and reducing Russian leverage over Western Europe, but not needlessly provocative such as by pushing NATO expansion to Russia's border. Biden has done the opposite of Trump in foreign policy and the result is that in less than a year, Putin felt empowered to do what he's doing now.