Sentence examples for a gratuitous assumption from inspiring English sources

Mellor argues that the existence of essences in essentialist accounts of natural kinds is simply a gratuitous assumption.

Impressionistic method has given way to systematic inquiry from which gratuitous assumptions are, if possible, excluded.

Violence, swearing, a gratuitous shower.

15 37 A gratuitous masturbation reference on "Blue".

Were they just a gratuitous mess?

Is this a newsworthy artifact or a gratuitous snuff film?

This was an ugly formulation, but not a gratuitous one.

This was a gratuitous swipe at the survivors.

Hogarth, too, puts in a gratuitous appearance.

For Nature, this was a gratuitous absurdity.

He called the move a "gratuitous slap".