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Definition
unnecessary and unwarranted
or less commonly (except where it is common in the legal field): costing nothing
or less commonly (except where it is common in the legal field): costing nothing
- Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly.p. 137.2
gratuitous = unnecessary and unwarranted
There are no more uses of "gratuitous" in 1984 by Orwell.
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