gratuitously

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. without reason; without cause.

Example Sentences

The violence in the movie was gratuitously graphic.

She gratuitously offered to help with the project.

He gratuitously insulted his coworker.

The actor gratuitously added extra lines to the script.

The company gratuitously donated money to the charity.

The director gratuitously included a nude scene in the film.

She gratuitously criticized her friend's appearance.

The author gratuitously inserted political commentary into the novel.

He gratuitously interrupted the meeting with irrelevant questions.

The professor gratuitously shared his personal anecdotes during the lecture.

Real-world Examples

The Fifteenth Amendment " does not entail the right to have Negro candidates elected, " Stewart observed gratuitously.

Source: The Atlantic Monthly (Article Edition)

And it's not about age, and this is just gratuitously cute.

Source: Stanford Open Course: Negotiation Skills

And I sort of gratuitously tore the problem in half.

Source: CS50

'It was gratuitously wicked of you to stage that quarrel at the Swan, wasn't it'?

Source: A handsome face.

Of the three, Yoshiko was the most flamboyant, Kersten the subtlest, Weinreb the most gratuitously destructive.

Source: The Economist Culture

His own approbation was necessary to him, and it was not an approbation to be enjoyed quite gratuitously; it must be won by a fair amount of merit.

Source: Adam Bede (Part One)

Behold, now let my heart confess to thee what it was seeking there, when I was being gratuitously wanton, having no inducement to evil but the evil itself.

Source: Volume Two of the Confessions

Even for that savage and brutal man, of whom it was said that he was gratuitously wicked and cruel, there is still a motive assigned to his deeds.

Source: Volume Two of the Confessions

They trample on virgin bashfulness with a sort of bravado, and glorying in their shame, become more audaciously lewd than men, however depraved, to whom the sexual quality has not been gratuitously granted, ever appear to be.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

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