gratuitously

Never in my life have I ever gratuitously struck anyone.

It seemed a gratuitously cruel way to take a man's life.

None of us had ever seen anything so gratuitously horrible.

His services were, however, for the most part, rendered gratuitously.

He did not ask after Kit, but gave his opinion of her gratuitously.

Other times, references to the war pop up almost gratuitously.

Have I used any adjectives gratuitously, rather than to provide more information?

Putting these issues to a vote would be gratuitously provocative.

To this church he continued to minister gratuitously for more than fifty years.

The transportation of the stone was done gratuitously by local farmers.

But I've never been gratuitously insulting to people who have meant well toward me.

Which in my case were cavalier men who offered, gratuitously, to service me.

The 700 large windows were glazed gratuitously by a firm.

He then starts telling us about some gratuitously violent video he's been watching.

"I would have a difficult time doing something gratuitously violent just for the sake of box office," he said.

But this alone was not reason enough for their choosing up sides in a conflict on some third world gratuitously.

In January 1950, he was caught after a gratuitously violent robbery.

South Park's satire is the most gratuitously offensive in the history of television.

You are fortunate to have this gratuitously given rebirth experience.

Hint: gratuitously closing doors on people is not the way to go.

Use Latin gratuitously to show off how clever you are and you're doomed.

Yet he is quite prepared to gratuitously give up our spectacular lead in human space exploration.

Was no one from his press office to stop some of the more gratuitously embarrassing hubris?

"The danger is that they can lose public support if it looks like they're being gratuitously provocative," he said.

To be sure, not all of the book's arguments are so gratuitously grouchy.