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
This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
It seems that the attack was a gratuitous/random/mindless act of violence.
She hasn't worked out that gratuitous swearing doesn't make you cool. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, humour should be neither gratuitous nor excessive, but judicious.
Bosses wanted to respect the audience by not making the scenes gratuitous. The Sun
There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
Less predictable, however, was the special appearance by a token white girl for some gratuitous booty shaking.
This is gratuitous violence, sick, bone-crunching, vicious and obscene.
Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism.
Now I've enjoyed the crystal dresses and the holographic goggles, the gratuitous body painting and the unsettling way you share your crotch with the audience but visible corrective undergarments is where I have to shut this space shuttle to the cockeye-ded fool down, silly! FASHION INDIE » FASHION PORN
I love the gratuitousness, the unnecessariness, the blood.
Why you should gratuitously offend a substantial part of your readership is beyond me.
Once you've got over all the rampant misogyny and gratuitous, comic-book violence, it's an entertaining night in.
There's a gratuitous poignancy provided by the fact that she's lame, which is no doubt to suggest that she won't be able to get another man - it fell a bit flat for me.
It is not just sadness in such a situation, it is appalling, gratuitous cruelty. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of the flood of people hitting the pit, and the absence of a barrier, resulted in an insane dance floor, replete with gratuitous crowd surfing and lost brain cells aplenty.
He also had to think about his credibility, which was too valuable to be squandered on gratuitous retribution.
Bosses wanted to respect the audience by not making the scenes gratuitous. The Sun
After all, poor white trash is only useful as cannon fodder in gratuitous wars. Think Progress » Kristol Supports Arizona Immigration Law: ‘I Don’t Think It Violates Anyone’s Civil Rights’
The problem is that the violence does seem gratuitous, ludicrous lurches at the ends of acts. Times, Sunday Times
Who does not realise that the violence is often gratuitous? Times, Sunday Times
But when virtuosity is not elevated by the power of a dramatic situation, the outcome, brilliant though it may be, suffers from dryness, a victim of its gratuitousness.
Among stories it described as "gratuitous" – literally, without merit – and not in the public interest was the revelation that the News of the World had hacked into Milly Dowler's voicemail. The new Met chief's U-turn is welcome – he had made a gross misjudgment | Jonathan Freedland
They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
On the other hand, the Roman and Greek laws, while considering the mutuum, or loan for consumption, as a contract gratuitous in principle, allowed a clause, stipulating for the payment of interest, to be added to the bond. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
The first of these defines aesthetic appreciation as _disinterested interest, _ gratuitously identifying self-interest with the practical pursuit of advantages we have not yet got; and overlooking the fact that such appreciation implies enjoyment and is so far the very reverse of disinterested. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
he insulted us gratuitously
Yep, the person who gratuitously killed the man who pleaded for his life is the Times 'freshly-minted Groom of the Week, resplendent in fine suit and "bubblegum" - hued tie. Sheila Weller: Note to NYT: If You're Going to Selectively Gush Over White-Gown-and-Bouquet Weddings, Keep Cold-Blooded Murderer Grooms Out
Grieg's piano music can be showy, but it never is gratuitously so; while it can be a showpiece for the performer, the music usually has other priorities.
It's not a smart move to gratuitously antagonise a welterweight boxing champ.
Fortunately, Townshend's guitar noodling never steps into the realm of being entirely gratuitous, and as with all the best songs on Heathen, Bowie's vocals are wisely left to dominate.
In the main, these are either gratuitously encomiastic or post-prandial.
Before the departure for Paris, Mrs Maugham fortunately forfeited her position by various gratuitous and irrelevant remarks about the expense.
Have his imperious manner, refusal to answer questions and gratuitous insults to critics betrayed a complacency that upsets voters? Times, Sunday Times
He called it "willful fomentation" and "gratuitous" to republish them throughout Europe. A Muslim Reformer on the Mosque
Who does not realise that the violence is often gratuitous? Times, Sunday Times
For my money, this thoughtfulness makes the moments of gratuitous blasphemy (which do happen, but are surely allowed too) disappointingly glib and unworthy of the rest of the script.
By the way, using a script exotic to a discourse is a gratuitous and low form of argument. Any experience with San Francisco consulate?
I've always like the flickr thing, but I think having four pictures of yourself in the header is a bit gratuitous. The New Look Iain Dale's Diary
But, honestly, the vast, and entirely gratuitous, sense of entitlement displayed by her campaign combined with the utter refusal by her and her supporters to recognize that she's endangering our best chance to pull out a big win in a must-win election smacks of Naderism, writ large. Report: Hillary Is Not "Unelectable," And The Polling Data Prove It
However, giving Earthlife opportunity to write "gratuitously" to the consultants did not constitute a hearing. ANC Daily News Briefing
Once you've got over all the rampant misogyny and gratuitous, comic-book violence, it's an entertaining night in.
In civilized societies, people act civilized and do not engage in gratuitous insults, which is exactly how Sarkozy and Obama behaved. The Obama-Sarkozy Show - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine. In the Desert, Prime Time
The gratuitous killing was the beginning of a shocking train of events that 13 years later has led her to Yorkshire in search of a new and better life.
The film was gratuitously offensive.
Extreme violence that crossed over into gratuitousness regularly, what with the repeated cleaver to the head and bodies exploding into bloody mist. Mommas, Don't Let You Children Go Out To See Watchmen
Graphic, gratuitous sex is as commonplace as graphic, gratuitous violence and no-one bats an eyelid.
I am trying to grasp specifically what the Pope means by "gratuitousness", which I see appears 12 times in one form or another in #6, 34, 36, 38, 39. A magnificent encyclical in a great tradition
To confuse intelligence and dislocate sentiment by gratuitous fictions is a short - sighted way of pursuing happiness.
To spend 6,000 a day to inflict gratuitous suffering beggars belief. Times, Sunday Times
She never indulged in gratuitous self-aggrandizing. 'Project Runway Talk' with Carol Hannah: 'I don't think I've been that depressed in a really long time' | EW.com
As for you studios, one tip: there's a fair bit of fattism, ageism, gratuitous violence, sexism and sheer bland awfulness on that nominee list too.
Artifacts too large to be carried away were gratuitously destroyed.
In real diplomacy you don't gratuitously insult allies you might need in the future.
Wrapped around the chat-show elements are snippets of supposedly adult education programmes and gratuitous shots of semi-nude women in titillating situations.
Erinn gratuitously rags on Dragonlicker, calling his monastic approach, "the martyr approach," telling how he will overdramatize his suffering to give him an excuse for blowing the next challenge. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Puff's Revenge
Moving on to the "coded" theology, this concerns chiefly the idea of gift or gratuitousness (34; 37; 39). Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
They are appointed by the government and give their services gratuitously.
In an odd way, NYPD Blue's nude scenes, however gratuitous, conferred upon the series the maturity network TV so sorely lacks.
Variations or reversals in the meanings of words are not of uncommon occurrence in the ordinary growth of languages; but it is not often that we find, as in this case, the whole meaning of a term intentionally and gratuitously changed by the leaders of philosophical thought. Thoughts on Religion
Also, surely, we should be allowed to express our sincerely held views without them needing to pass a test of "gratuitousness"? Does being non-Muslim entail holding blasphemous beliefs? (Part Two)
Happily, there was no sign of a gratuitous inclusion of whisky in any of the recipes.
It was a voluntary and gratuitous offer by the chambers to provide education and training.
Sorry about the gratuitous nudity - I don't like wearing socks in the house.
These, by the extension of the generic term to specifically designate a new subdivision, are, by antonomasia, called gratuitously given graces The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
It's not so much a truly original story with regards to the subject matter, but the global encompassment, coupled with the avoidance of being violently gratuitous make for a one-of-a-kind book. Archive 2010-01-01
He was the victim of wholly gratuitous violence in the prison where he was detained. Times, Sunday Times
You forgot to mention the gratuitous soaking the smirking staff know will hit some tables when the sea is angry. Times, Sunday Times
He will have gratuitously become a copartner in the guilt which hitherto has rested upon the souls of Andrew Johnson and his Northern and Southern satellites, but which thenceforth will rest on his soul also until he can contrive duly to alter these governments. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
The government is increasingly accepting stress as an illness and as a result it is repeatedly and gratuitously used as an excuse for society to hide behind.
Student demonstrations developed an ugly edge of gratuitous violence.
And that is exactly what is most painful about Obama's elevation of Warren to "America's pastor:" the gratuitousness of it all. Mr. Obama Disagrees
State Education was entirely free; and all school equipment was gratuitously supplied.
I don't think there's an audience for gratuitous blasphemy or for gratuitous swearing - because it's boring.
No movement is gratuitous - every jump, turn, arabesque and gesture conveys information.
I was unimpressed by the litany of self - destruction, violence and gratuitous sexism.
More seriously, it encourages gratuitous violence and is almost wholly devoid of the arts and skills which once adorned it. Times, Sunday Times
This adaptation will have its critics, and it'll be hard to answer their accusations of gratuitous violence.
Bread was given away gratuitously by a vendor who was left with scores of hard dough he was unable to sell.
To spend 6,000 a day to inflict gratuitous suffering beggars belief. Times, Sunday Times
And no films with gratuitous violence, nudity or profanity were allowed.
Eliminating somewhat gratuitous use of antibiotics is a helpful start. David Katz, M.D.: Unkillable Bacteria: Where Eating Meat Meets Pound of Flesh
Why didn't the so-called leaders ever challenge him on these gratuitous little cat-tortures-mouse things, on his nonsenatorial, noncollegial, boastful, egomaniacal dictates to them and everyone else? Brutus Denies All
Despite the fact that calling them "dicks" seems gratuitous in its reference to the male anatomy, never has their dickishness been more evident than when they came out in droves on September 12, 2009, opposing government-run health care, higher taxes, current fashion trends, bailouts, increases in the government's power, shirts with sleeves, and all logical thought. Dickipedia: Teabaggers
My misery was what I call my gratuitous brain surgery. Misery loves companies
They'll work day and night to ensnare exclusive accounts, become besties with editors to ensure their clients get the best bang for their buck (placement, gratuitous editorial mentions) and sniff out new leads like single girls at a B & S ball.
I tend to think a lot of the handwringing that goes with teen girls and sexiness is gratuitous. Movie Review and Discussion: The Runaways (Guest: Marisa Meltzer, Author of Girl Power) | /Film
They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness.
There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
I have on my desk I card he wrote me back in '04 when I condoled him for one of Michiko Kakutani's many gratuitous attacks on his writing. Erica Jong: J.U. and I
In fact, some gratuitous market-driven pampering would suit me fine right now. Times, Sunday Times
I wouldn’t put them in gratuitously, either, for no particular reason. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 2
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
[Greek: _pros tont_o_], and [Greek: _kai tauta gynaika_] must refer to the same person as [Greek: _barbaron anthr_opon_]; (2) to Artaxerxes alone, the words [Greek: _kai tauta gynaika_] being a gratuitous insult such as it was customary for Athenians to level at any Persian; (3) to Artemisia alone, [Greek: anthr_opos] being feminine here as often. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
Liability for negligent advice is imposed irrespective of whether it is given gratuitously.
As for you studios, one tip: there's a fair bit of fattism, ageism, gratuitous violence, sexism and sheer bland awfulness on that nominee list too.
The violence was gratuitous and appalling, but the film could be dismissed as essentially cartoonish.
More seriously, it encourages gratuitous violence and is almost wholly devoid of the arts and skills which once adorned it. Times, Sunday Times
It seems that the attack was a gratuitous/random/mindless act of violence.
Perhaps it would be gratuitously unkind to compare the intellects and depth of the two presidents.
These are the people who like to censor rap lyrics and condemn gratuitous violence, and the violence here seems pretty gratuitous.
He described Gueret's views as a "full-frontal, hypocritical, misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack".
But he rejects any charge of gratuitousness, citing a more political, and more personal, reason for their inclusion.
Some performance art does contain gratuitous violence.
December's gratuitousness was indeed enjoyable, but the blissful ignorance of overspending must be accounted for today. Dealing with Post-Holiday Debt
He then states a "miscast" Goldwyn "makes revenge for his daughter's violation look more gratuitously brutal than the crime. Fat Guys at the Movies
No movement is gratuitous - every jump, turn, arabesque and gesture conveys information.
Fees sometimes lack transparency and, more frustratingly, are often gratuitous. Times, Sunday Times
She now regrets gratuitously slating other creative people.
For him, one feels, the kitsch motif is first and last an occasion for pictorial experiment, as well as being a perfect correlative for the gratuitous choice to paint in the 21st century.
There are people who turn out for these things solely to indulge in a bit of gratuitous violence, hoping it'll spread.
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
More seriously, it encourages gratuitous violence and is almost wholly devoid of the arts and skills which once adorned it. Times, Sunday Times
I love the way he takes things in his stride without the need for gratuitous violence. The Sun
All of this expresses very well a necessary order and a determinate process, but one into which freedom, unorthodoxy and the sphere of the gratuitous and spontaneous cannot penetrate.
This was a misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack.
There's a strong countercurrent of feeling that Turkey is gratuitously barging into the intractable quarrels of others. Tayyip Erdogan's Dangerous Rhetoric
Why can some comics be off-color but it doesn't seem gratuitous and vulgar?
Careful stewardship of cash or gratuitous hoarding? Times, Sunday Times
We are not aware of any cases in which the nonlawyer provider of gratuitous legal advice, such as to a friend or relative, was charged under these laws.
Fees sometimes lack transparency and, more frustratingly, are often gratuitous. Times, Sunday Times
Israel, "from" them shall raise your voices to "magnify the Lord," acknowledging that Jehovah has shown to you a gratuitous favor not shown to Edom, and so ought to be especially "magnified from the borders of Israel. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.
And frankly, given that Keyes has exactly no chance of winning, it just seems kind of gratuitously cruel to invade her privacy. Keyes’s Daughter
The gratuitous gossip included claims of domestic violence, adultery and abusive relationships.
They were gratuitous volunteers, not bona fide purchasers for value without notice.
Yes, there's a fair amount of behind-the-bike-shed puerility and flashes of gratuitously cruel humour. Times, Sunday Times
And no, the parenthetical mention that he is gay is not gratuitous in the least, it reflects the PC climate at large, as does the lacrosse case — i.e. what is edited into the news vs. what is elided out of the news: a trumped-up case vs. an actual case and the publicity that surrounded each of those cases (the lack of publicity in the case of Frank Lombard). The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center
Her vivid descriptions are often gruesome, but never gratuitous.
I love the way he takes things in his stride without the need for gratuitous violence. The Sun
Who does not realise that the violence is often gratuitous? Times, Sunday Times
a gratuitous insult
Give domestic enterprises depend on extensive types that exploit gratuitously resource manage and challenge with backward awareness of environment too.
The violence is not gratuitous, and it is hard to watch. Times, Sunday Times
Or that nobody who is good at sports ought to be "morally upright" iow, not sleep with team-mates wives, girlfriends or partners, or swear gratuitously on every occasion or enjoy a decent choral evensong? Why are English sporting heroes so dull? | Kevin McKenna
He notes a photo "captured this week on the Idaho/Washington border" that shows a "fire rainbow" and comments that "[i]t's the gratuitousness of such beaty [sic] that leads me to rebel against materialism. The Panda's Thumb: John M. Lynch Archives
In the monastery all such labour was gratuitous, that is, the copyist received no pecuniary remuneration, only his food and lodging. Illuminated Manuscripts
Instead of ending the play with the hitman's absorption into the group, however, there's a gratuitous plot-twist.
Nor can it be a case of orthographic fetishism, such as the gratuitous use of diacritics intended to make a word look chic, e.g. Lancôme.
Because it was unnecessary, it appears to strangers to be a deliberate and gratuitous slap at the selected group as a whole; and in consequence is inflamatory and perhaps callous. Fucking hell. « Love | Peace | Ohana
An adversarial, unsmiling character, Bourdain has a gratuitous grudge against a society whose bourgeois comforts he long ago rejected.
The problem is that the violence does seem gratuitous, ludicrous lurches at the ends of acts. Times, Sunday Times
Since at least the first part of Mark's mission was meant to be public and demonstrative, there was no reason why every soul in the enclave should not take an avid interest in it, and there was no lack of gratuitous advice available from all sides as to how it could best be performed, especially from old Brother Dafydd in the infirmary, who had not seen his native cantref of Duffryn Clwyd for forty years, but was still convinced he knew it like the palm of his ancient hand. His Disposition
After having made himself double, he makes nature in like manner twofold, and then he supposes she is vivified by an intelligence, which he borrows from himself, Placed in an impossibility of becoming acquainted with this agent, as well as with that which he has gratuitously distinguished from his own body; he has invented the word spiritual to cover up his ignorance; which is only in other words avowing it is a substance entirely unknown to him. The System of Nature, Volume 2
Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor.
Extreme violence, at times gratuitous, is a recurring motif in his early films.
It seems that the attack was a gratuitous/random/mindless act of violence.
Withers might have ignored or snubbed this gratuitous intervention from a youthful stranger. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Liability for negligent advice is imposed irrespective of whether it is given gratuitously.
The sole non-Japanese entry to this list is a South-Korean scifi spectacular that positively revels in gratuitous depictions of squash-and-stretch violence, sexuality, and bodily functions. MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!)
She hasn't worked out that gratuitous swearing doesn't make you cool. Times, Sunday Times
It's gratuitously violent and requires the player to physically mimic the action on screen, such as jerking the Wii remote downward to shove a pen into an enemy's head. Printing: The REAL Game Kids Should Never Play
And calling him out on his errors is far preferable to gratuitous me-tooism. Poll: McCain Takes Lead In Key Swing State Of Missouri
A tasty stock doesn't really need gratuitous added sugars. The Sun
He was the victim of wholly gratuitous violence in the prison where he was detained. Times, Sunday Times
Before the departure for Paris, Mrs Maugham fortunately forfeited her position by various gratuitous and irrelevant remarks about the expense.
It is extremely painful to watch and yet the violence is never gratuitous.
But the torrent of sex content never feels gratuitous, partly thanks to the actors' uninhibited performances: they indulge themselves so unselfconsciously that we're loath to turn prudish.
Show gratuitous violence is unacceptable. The Sun
However, it is still worrying that Scotland Yard used the word 'gratuitous' to describe the Milly Dowler story, trying to say it was not in the public interest. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As usual a great time was had by all except for an outbreak of gratuitous flatulence.
You forgot to mention the gratuitous soaking the smirking staff know will hit some tables when the sea is angry. Times, Sunday Times
I am sorry, Mr. Goldsmith, Civil War was a gratuitous exercise in sensationalism, trying to take silly ideas like Superhero Blockbuster (it is formatted very much like a Bay movie), applying a demagoguery hamfisted, hollywood-liberal demagoguery to it. /Filmcast Ep. 91 - Green Zone (GUEST: Jeff Goldsmith from Creative Screenwriting Magazine) | /Film
There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
Proving once again that the barrel has no bottom, Five Feet of I’m a Parody of Myself™ references that bastion of scientific integrity and reasoned, intelligent discourse Lifesite in order to take a gratuitous swipe at what she calls wimpy, "gay-acting" straight beta males. Archive 2008-08-01
The court heard he garrotted her from behind, using the cord from his tracksuit bottoms, before inflicting "gratuitous" wounds on her lifeless body. Archive 2008-11-01
The censorship stooshie may stir up some media attention, but it also creates a misrepresentation of a film defined more by ponderous pacing and pretentiousness than by gratuitous sensation.
He's your typical footy trog who inflates the language of football by injecting gratuitous fat-speak.
And so the series continues to insert gratuitous violence into the story where it didn't exist before. Christianity Today
They offered information to the court gratuitously, just to help the court avoid error.
If it's gratuitous swearing you want, then top-quality cussing you shall have, my friends!
When income tax and excise revenues are not delivering, then it is time to call a halt on gratuitous payments to the public sector.
And so the series continues to insert gratuitous violence into the story where it didn't exist before. Christianity Today
But this is no gameshow - this is not gratuitous reality television.
Many films nominally aimed at children today are relentless, overlong, surprisingly violent and gratuitously mean-minded.
The problem is that the violence does seem gratuitous, ludicrous lurches at the ends of acts. Times, Sunday Times
Show gratuitous violence is unacceptable. The Sun
He gave his services gratuitously.
To spend 6,000 a day to inflict gratuitous suffering beggars belief. Times, Sunday Times
The violence gets fairly gratuitous, but again, depending on your taste, maybe that's a selling point.
It is not an angry tirade against religion, nor is it an attack on Christianity guised as a horror flick laden with gratuitous violence. Cathleen Falsani: Kevin Smith's 'Red State': Masterful, Spiritually Powerful
Court employees should cite this Principle when pressed by those seeking gratuitous legal advice.
The traditional approach to this difficulty is to dismiss epideictic oratory as irrelevant and gratuitous display.
My previous “gratuitous nudity” #4 post featured images of an Italian seventies film on frotteurism. Gratuitous nudity #5 « Jahsonic
The gratuitous gossip included claims of domestic violence, adultery and abusive relationships.
A Town Court judge in Saratoga County, N.Y., has been censured for "gratuitously" invoking his judicial status when asking prison officials to confiscate documents from an inmate. Law.com - Newswire
Policy designed to deprive us of the benefit of the sun's gratuitous gift of illumination is policy that seems to have missed the irony of Bastiat's "Petition from the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, &c. Climate Engineering, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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

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