GRATUITOUS in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for GRATUITOUS, such as:
1. Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor.
2. And tonight's business seems quite gratuitous folly.
3. There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
4. Yet many of these movies contain gratuitous and graphic violence.
5. They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined.
2. And tonight's business seems quite gratuitous folly.
3. There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
4. Yet many of these movies contain gratuitous and graphic violence.
5. They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined.
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Meanings and Examples of GRATUITOUS
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gratuitous
a. given freely; unwarranted; granted without recompense; unearned
Classic Sentence:
1 Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor.
2 Equality has an organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
3 To no class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera-box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king's ransom in his waistcoat pocket.
4 Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke to tempt, even while they frightened him.
5 And tonight's business seems quite gratuitous folly.
6 The self-sacrifice of a father or mother, or self-sacrifice with the possibility of a reward, is more comprehensible than gratuitous self-sacrifice, and therefore seems less deserving of sympathy and less the result of free will.
7 They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined.
Example Sentence:
1 Yet many of these movies contain gratuitous and graphic violence.
2 There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.
3 Archbishop Tutu said scared car owners handed over the keys but were then shot dead in cold blood for the sheer hell of it -- utterly, gratuitously, and wantonly.