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Adjective: otiose  'owshee`ows
  1. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
    "otiose lines in a play"
    - pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
     
  2. Producing no result or effect
    "an otiose undertaking"
    - futile, ineffectual, unavailing
     
  3. Disinclined to work or exertion
    - fainéant, indolent, lazy, slothful, work-shy

See also: idle, useless, worthless

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Othman I
Otho
Otho I
Otho of Lagery
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otic ganglion
Otides
Otididae
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Otis
Otis Skinner
Otis tarda
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otitis externa
otitis interna
otitis media
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Otoe