Example sentences for: gratuitously

How can you use “gratuitously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On top of the many sacrifices public servants already must make--disclosure, lower pay, restrictions on what they can do after they leave--they must increasingly bank on being gratuitously ripped apart by a totally politicized confirmation process.

  • Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.

  • Instead, Senate Republicans continue to antagonize Democrats gratuitously.

  • Los Angeles Times TV critic Harold Rosenberg scored her "gratuitously coarse language and one-liners, and cheap political jokes."

  • The most gratuitously anti-Sid coverage was the front-page sneer from John M. Broder in the New York Times .


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