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gratuitous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | needless, uncalled-for |
gratuitous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
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a gratuitous insult.
Examples of gratuitous
gratuitous
There is the liberal, gratuitous abuse, frequently focused on nationality lines.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The battering was no less troubling for the fact that it was largely gratuitous.
From the time.com
None should be used in a gratuitous comment by writers as a synonym for rubbish.
From the smh.com.au
All that display of nudity is getting overmuch and beginning to seem gratuitous.
From the entertainment.time.com
Another gratuitous fluff event contrived for the media by the wilderness lobby.
From the latimes.com
Furthermore, the idea of affirmative action for conservatives seems gratuitous.
From the kansas.com
All they need to do now is to add in some gratuitous CGI to ruin it completely.
From the guardian.co.uk
That doesn't mean that there is a site-wide policy that we need to be gratuitous.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The graphics always dazzle and enhance our heroine's gratuitous beauty in battle.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Without cause; "a gratuitous insult"
- Complimentary: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
- Unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"
- (gratuitously) in an uncalled-for manner; "he insulted us gratuitously"
- Given freely; unearned; Not called for by the circumstances; uncalled-for; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; unjustified
- (adj.) uncalled for, unwarranted (Every evening the guy at the fish and chip shop gives me a gratuitous helping of vinegar.)
- Without consideration, e.g., in the nature of a gift that's given with nothing whatever expected in return.
- (adj) - given freely, unwarranted, uncalled for
- Made or granted without monetary or other consideration.
