The Only Use
gratuitous
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly.
p. 137.2gratuitous = unnecessary and unwarranted
Definitions:
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(1)
(gratuitous) unnecessary and unwarranted
or less commonly (except where it is common in the legal field): costing nothing - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)