gratuitous

It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.

And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

Initially, I thought, “OK, they have to throw in a wave… that looks gratuitous.”

But God forbid a TV series premieres pushing out gratuitous emotion and gratuitous feeling.

The Israeli soldiers, my age, sat impassively on a bench while babies cried and a man complained about gratuitous humiliation.

A baronet scientifically skilled in pugilism, enjoyed no pleasure so much as giving gratuitous instructions in his favorite art.

“I dare say that looked very much like a gratuitous impertinence from—the packer,” he observed.

Such are the ideas which the dogma of gratuitous predestination gives of Divinity!

Much difficulty arose, in the distribution of gratuitous supplies of food, from the routine of the public offices.

In consequence, they have imagined many gratuitous suppositions to explain the union of the soul with the body.