gratuitous
Example Sentences
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Banerjee also criticised what he called an excess of "gratuitous violence", arguing that "it is social media hype that is deciding the film's fate."
From Barron's
Plus, frankly, there are those within Labour who would rather he didn't come back to Westminster, such has been, as they see it, the gratuitous nature of his manoeuvring for the top job.
From BBC
I didn’t ask it to, but didn’t mind this gratuitous edit.
Ms. King seeds her love story with engaging dialogue and literary references that are never pretentious or gratuitous.
“Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.”
From Los Angeles Times
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