Sample Sentences forgratuitous (auto-selected)
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If there was one thing about Liesel Meminger, her thieving was not gratuitous. (source)gratuitous = unnecessary and unwarranted
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I found the gore a bit gratuitous, so I looked away for a second, asking Augustus, "How many dead people do you think there are?" (source)
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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)
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Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly. (source)
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. (source)gratuitous = unnecessary
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I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, (source)gratuitously = unnecessary and unwarranted
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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)
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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)
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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.
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Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.† (source)
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Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo.† (source)
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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)
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As for Lord Antony and Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, their very hearts seemed to stand still with horror at this gratuitous insult.† (source)
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But in the humans the Enemy has gratuitously associated affection between the parties with sexual desire.† (source)
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I woke early, having slept soundly and dreamlessly thanks to my gratuitous drug use.† (source)
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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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