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gratuitous

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gratuitous
Law given or made without receiving any value in return


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The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy.
The Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The time and the manner of his asking her appeared like a gratuitous insult to me; and I could have wept with pure vexation.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
 
 
 
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