We are not in the business of gratuitously insulting our European partners.
There had been a gratuitously cruel article in a magazine about her that implied nasty, untrue things.
Sometimes the cyclic scheme seems to be invoked gratuitously.
They should not simply have eternal happiness given to them gratuitously.
The idea is that gratuitously harming the horse wrongs the horse.
Howsepian does not support this slander in any way, he merely throws it out gratuitously as a live possibility and then refuses to pursue it.
He also introduces the accompaniment of bells and clarsach (a wire-stringed instrument), gratuitously assuming a crossover between secular and sacred music that is not at all evident to careful scholars.