Mr. Bean contends that these subsidies are "an unnecessary and gratuitous use of public funds."

It is only right that viewers should be protected from the gratuitous use of swearwords.

It attacks what it asserts is Fox News' gratuitous use of sexual images and topics on its shows.

We should also avoid the gratuitous use of close-ups of faces and serious injuries of those who are dead, suffering or in distress.

James Wadsworth wanted a library "open and free for the gratuitous use as well of the inhabitants of the County of Livingston."

Avoid the gratuitous use of "woman" as in "a woman doctor/a woman Army officer/a woman scientist".

Every episode contained gratuitous use of the word "butt".

(In other words, no personal attacks or gratuitous use of extreme language; any offending comments will be deleted.)

There is, nonetheless, a huge amount of software that is aimed at adults and is characterised by an almost gratuitous use of violence.