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gratuitously

[ UK /ɡɹætjˈuːɪtəsli/ ]
[ US /ɡɹəˈtuətəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an uncalled-for manner
    he insulted us gratuitously

How To Use gratuitously In A Sentence

  • He gave his services gratuitously.
  • She now regrets gratuitously slating other creative people.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yes, there's a fair amount of behind-the-bike-shed puerility and flashes of gratuitously cruel humour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Give domestic enterprises depend on extensive types that exploit gratuitously resource manage and challenge with backward awareness of environment too.
  • 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
  • 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
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