How To Use Gratuitously In A Sentence
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He gave his services gratuitously.
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She now regrets gratuitously slating other creative people.
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This was a misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack.
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There's a strong countercurrent of feeling that Turkey is gratuitously barging into the intractable quarrels of others.
Tayyip Erdogan's Dangerous Rhetoric
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We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.
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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
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Yes, there's a fair amount of behind-the-bike-shed puerility and flashes of gratuitously cruel humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Give domestic enterprises depend on extensive types that exploit gratuitously resource manage and challenge with backward awareness of environment too.
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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
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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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Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor.
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Liability for negligent advice is imposed irrespective of whether it is given gratuitously.
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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
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They offered information to the court gratuitously, just to help the court avoid error.
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Many films nominally aimed at children today are relentless, overlong, surprisingly violent and gratuitously mean-minded.
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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
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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
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The episode proper this week began with a shot of Special Agent Dry Mouth, in the early morning, while his entire tribe was trying to sleep, gratuitously pissing them off, using a palm frond to sweep the jungle!
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Russell Blows It, Mansweater Sucks It, and Big Mouth Stamps It.
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Yet it did not enter into the composition of his religious faith, and this shows that his religious faith, though entirely free from suspicion of insincerity or ostentatious assumption, was like deism in so many cases, whether rationalistic or emotional, a kind of gratuitously adopted superfluity, not the satisfaction of a profound inner craving and resistless spiritual necessity.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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I adore the brutality of the gratuitously unsplit infinitive.
Archive 2009-05-03
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Being in a country where many don't speak English, you can drop the f-word gratuitously when you are angry enough.
Blogbot - forsiden
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Nor should it be viewed as a matter of stemming the flow of scientists overseas, as Queensland's Premier, Peter Beattie, gratuitously implied.
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I don't think Canadians buy into the idea of gratuitously being offensive.
Archive 2006-03-01
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In our present state we may drink of the stream, then we shall drink at the Fountain. freely -- Greek, "gratuitously": the same Greek as is translated, "(They hated Me) without a cause," Joh 15: 25.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The major local daily in Toronto, the Toronto Star, says it doesn't believe in "gratuitously" labelling people by ethnic origin.
America's top cop tells Canadians the truth about crime and race:
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These things are superabundantly evident in the case of a monarchy or an aristocracy; but it is sometimes rather gratuitously assumed that the same kind of injurious influences do not operate in a democracy.
Representative Government
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I didn't just want to wantonly and gratuitously attack them.
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Thankfully, the New York quartet don't share that band's annoying tendency to gratuitously swear like petulant third-graders.
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An inability to perform even the simplest of DIY exercises without the verbose delivery of staccato sentences, gratuitously peppered with offensive curses.
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In real diplomacy you don't gratuitously insult allies you might need in the future.
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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
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Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism.
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Why you should gratuitously offend a substantial part of your readership is beyond me.
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They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
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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
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he insulted us gratuitously
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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
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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.
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It's not a smart move to gratuitously antagonise a welterweight boxing champ.
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In the main, these are either gratuitously encomiastic or post-prandial.
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However, giving Earthlife opportunity to write "gratuitously" to the consultants did not constitute a hearing.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The film was gratuitously offensive.
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Artifacts too large to be carried away were gratuitously destroyed.
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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.
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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
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They are appointed by the government and give their services gratuitously.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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State Education was entirely free; and all school equipment was gratuitously supplied.
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Bread was given away gratuitously by a vendor who was left with scores of hard dough he was unable to sell.
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They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive.
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I wouldn’t put them in gratuitously, either, for no particular reason.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 2
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Liability for negligent advice is imposed irrespective of whether it is given gratuitously.
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Perhaps it would be gratuitously unkind to compare the intellects and depth of the two presidents.
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He described Gueret's views as a "full-frontal, hypocritical, misinformed and gratuitously insulting attack".
