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"gratuitous assertion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used in formal or academic writing to describe a statement that is made without any evidence or support. Example: The politician's speech was filled with gratuitous assertions, but lacked any substantial evidence or data to back them up.
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Is "our culture" a "limbo of arbitrary choices and gratuitous assertions," as Kramer wrote in 1972?
How could "Experts" from @UNHumanRights believe such gratuitous assertions based on flying rumors and gossip?
"It is deplorable that the experts believed such gratuitous and diversionist assertions," it said.
"The gratuitous and unsupported assertions by the District Court..
"The assertion, moreover, casts a gratuitous slur — which I greatly regret — on the countless responsible married people who practice contraception and whose family life is an example to all".
Now go back, for a moment, to the schools inquiry commission and look at its confident assertion that there was no justification for "indiscriminate gratuitous instruction".
"I share the widespread regret that the AHRC included gratuitous references to the big society in its delivery document, and I'm not persuaded by Rick Rylance's assertions that big society is now a technical term independent of its political origins," Robertson said.
Gratuitous, too.
Or gratuitous?
Stark, gratuitous.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
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