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gratuitous
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  • ...it is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others with gratuitous comments.  (source)
  • Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly.  (source)
  • Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous.  (source)
    gratuitous = unnecessary
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  • Also on unions, which was gratuitous because Port Ticonderoga did not have any unions in it and Father's dim views on them were no secret.†  (source)
  • In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation that gratuitously included a provision that authorized states to ban people with drug convictions from public benefits and welfare.†  (source)
  • Don't you think it is destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I woke early, having slept soundly and dreamlessly thanks to my gratuitous drug use.†  (source)
  • For one thing, on her way to the lane, Laura is gratuitously accosted by a large dog "running by like a shadow" Upon getting to the bottom, she crosses the "broad road" to go into the dismal lane.†  (source)
  • To her and her like, birth itself was an ordeal of degrading personal compulsion, whose gratuitousness nothing in the result seemed to justify, and at best could only palliate.†  (source)
  • To sneak out of the house without permission, without even informing me, to attend some gratuitous parade, and all the while Peony is—" Her voice hitched.†  (source)
  • I—I got 'em at Ginsberg's," she added gratuitously.†  (source)
  • The wall that the closet shared with the closet in the adjoining room did not meet the ceiling for some reason, but was finished off with a gratuitous piece of oak trim.†  (source)
  • I no longer believe this is a quid pro quo universe—I've counseled too many prisoners, worked with too many failed marriages, faced my own dilemmas too many times, and been loved gratuitously after too many failures.†  (source)
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