No group would last very long if it promoted gratuitous attacks on neighbors or discouraged childrearing.
Most Americans thought of it as a gratuitous handout to greedy Wall Street executives.
For sheer gratuitous destruction, you'd have to conjure a suburban teenager on Mischief Night.
The USDA has created a massive, inefficient and arguably gratuitous bureaucracy to administer these regulations.
It could be gratuitous, but in recent cases it has been consistent with storytelling.
The federal gift tax theoretically applies to any gratuitous transfer of property by an individual.
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Time and again, Isaacson repeatedly asks Jobs about Gates and Jobs cannot resist the gratuitous dig.
The gratuitous use of high fructose corn syrup in almost every conceivable food and drink.
What harrowing coverage by the Naudet brothers, but at no time was it gratuitous.
This seems like a gratuitous slam of religion that has no basis in fact.
It was, in hindsight, a gratuitous comment that enraged many Italians and helped convict De Bernardinis.
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He said some shows now neglect traditional storytelling for the sake of "gratuitous" use of CGI graphics.
Mr Biden is known for his affection towards Israel but took the announcement as a gratuitous insult.
But these stretchy playoff calendars seem gratuitous, especially after regular seasons that are too long to begin with.
But in 2001 Canada itself briefly slapped a gratuitous ban on Brazilian beef.
By contrast, the issue of sex is mentioned more than 500 times, in the most graphic, salacious and gratuitous manner.
"The evidence does not support the magistrate's gratuitous attack on Pribe's veracity, " read a 38-page brief that Pribe himself signed.
And the newspaper warns that a string of players could leave the club unless the gratuitous sale of players stops.
For some reason, they expressed little enthusiasm for celebrity gossip, wacky sex stories or gratuitous pictures of skimpily clad women.
You might think such an organisation would jump at the chance to eliminate a distortion as gratuitous as the ethanol subsidy.
Forbes accepts that role with a particular vigor, and from time to time its writers wander into the gratuitous and inaccurate.
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Like my elders, hip-hoppers born before the mid-1970s, I cringe at the gratuitous money-hungry, violent, misogynistic and lackluster turn of some of the music.
The least gratuitous observances of the great milestone may be scattered efforts to rehabilitate three early operas Wagner excluded from his canon.
That extra degree of freedom in the equation thus adds in a gratuitous degree of uncertainty that no careful draftsmanship can avoid.
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It also adds a gratuitous picture of Jack Abramoff, a convicted fraudster.
The inclusion of a warning around the metadata may have been a gratuitous addition to an otherwise already lengthy list of problems.
The fault is not just that the episode is sadistic and voyeuristic: it has no sustained resonance within the sequence it is gratuitous.
No amount of gratuitous swag would have caused me to enjoy the game more than in a very middling sort of way.
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It was elemental, a gratuitous act of loving that had not involved flattery or deceit, and that was unaccompanied by shame or guilt.
To speak the truth is no crime-but to rise up in gratuitous violence at the sound of truth, however offensive, ought to be.
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