gratuitous.
赏心悦目的,赏心悦目,赏金,赠与的
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adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- ›being without apparent reason, cause, or justification: a gratuitous insult.
- ›Law. given without receiving any return value.
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Examples
While she missed Phoenix’s first-round nail-biter over New York, Sophie Cunningham entered the game and impersonated her mentor, right down to the made threes and gratuitous technical.
One fellow entertainer suggested the conversion was a “gratuitous” effort to curry favor with Jewish nightclub owners and audiences.
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 predestination gives of Divinity!