gratuitous

I thought it was a gratuitous thing to do, particularly to someone on your own side.

And there is no gratuitous information to get in the way.

And who said there's too much gratuitous violence on television?

The point is that the consequences, if any, are gratuitous.

And for the second night in succession, a third period was all but gratuitous.

"I think it would be gratuitous for me to discuss that with him."

Within a short period of time, gratuitous violence has become commonplace.

The attack is so seemingly gratuitous that you look for a reason.

All too many others are gratuitous and in questionable taste.

So the seventh question may well prove to be gratuitous.

Both men have already received enough gratuitous advice to keep them busy for months.

And of course, we'd have to be careful about anything seeming gratuitous.

They were set once and for all by the gratuitous ugliness of his parents' house.

But of course I realized that this would be a pretty gratuitous move, under the circumstances.

"I find gratuitous violence sort of hard to stomach," he said.

He does this two or three times as a gratuitous diversion from their debate.

For one thing, the compression is more strategic than gratuitous.

Gratuitous and even a little spiteful in the light of what's just happened.

But he still had enough energy left for some gratuitous sadism.

"But for some gratuitous reason they introduced all this political conservatism."

But the problem is the images themselves; they often feel gratuitous, affected and limited.

"An owner is somebody who thinks he can exercise gratuitous control."