Sentence examples similar to gratuitous mistake from inspiring English sources

Putting Nancarrow in human hands, with or without his consent, may have been one big mistake; the gratuitous gift of instrumental color to his music was probably another.

"I think somebody wrote something saying that people have mistaken their anger about gratuitous violence for the shock they felt.

But regardless of the pitiful sums involved, make no mistake: This action is utterly gratuitous.

But the biggest mistake one could make in looking at the gratuitous slaughter of these young people (three arrests have been made and more are expected) is to view it as a problem peculiar to Newark.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.