gratuitous

How To Use gratuitous In A Sentence

• The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
• Hallucigenia" hits a good cross section of themes and set pieces central to my work -- hard bitten protagonists, dark cults, insanity, gratuitous rumpy pumpy, esoteric lore, super science, monsters, and cosmic horror all tangled up in pulp-noir webbing. INTERVIEW: Laird Barron
• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley 
• Bosses wanted to respect the audience by not making the scenes gratuitous. The Sun
• Show gratuitous violence is unacceptable. The Sun
• He will be shown gratuitous sex and graphic violence, hidden behind innuendo and called a romantic comedy.
• Perhaps the most remarkable proposition in Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate, therefore, is the controversial assertion that gratuity-or as the official English translation frequently reads, "gratuitousness" - is essential to economic life. Catholic Community Speaks | AmericanCatholic.org
• The violence is not gratuitous, and it is hard to watch. Times, Sunday Times
• First, it has no truck with the tendency towards gratuitous supersizing, which rightly worries dieticians and games teachers alike. Times, Sunday Times
• This totally incompetent woman, is good at cacooning herself from public scrutiny, makes herself unavailable to public questioning, yet she gratuitously offers her opinions without submitting herself to vetting. cmb Palin to visit Fort Hood during book tour