gratuitous
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Occasionally, “Your Mother” indulges in genre clichés, such as gratuitous slow-motion and solemn pronouncements about the warrior’s code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
His “Resident Evil” films are as gratuitous as they are ridiculous — often repetitive and typically predictable.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
With “A Void,” Perec demonstrates the inventive power that emerges from what can seem like gratuitous, even perverse, limitations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
He said their occupation of the guardhouse would have sufficed in causing disruption and the damage they caused was "gratuitous" and for "performance purposes only".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly!
From "1984" by George Orwell
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