How to pronounce otiose:
Example: "Otiose lines in a play"
Example: "A futile effort"
Example: "Faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"
Having no effect.
Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.