gratuitous

• She thought what Lydell was doing, what he was teaching, was stingy, gratuitous, and cruel. —  F ;SF - vol 099 issue 03 - September 2000
• If in some cases the faults of the Washington version appear gratuitous, the printed copy being before him, on the other hand it often suggests a closer approach to the French—of which language Washington is known to have been totally ignorant. —  George Washington's Rules of Civility
• Lagos - The Action Congress (AC) has described as a gratuitous insult to all Nigerians the comments credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Nigerians should brace up for tough times in 2009 because of the global economic recession. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
• But it's less limited than before -- comments are posted immediately instead of having to wait for someone (me) to review them - though I do try to cut out such things as gratuitous, ad hominem slams.
• So gratuitous was the nudity in one episode that some vulgar commentators quipped that instead of

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