Sentence examples similar to gratuitous penalty from inspiring English sources
Will he keep taking gratuitous penalties, like Monday night's slash on the way to the bench?
Although the Devils took two early penalties in the Toronto zone, they did not, for the most part, respond emotionally with gratuitous penalties to the physical and verbal provocation that characterized the Leafs' play for most of the series.
After the rookie defenseman Colin White served a gratuitous roughing penalty resulting in a Maple Leafs goal, a red-faced Robinson approached him and spoke harshly.
The second Devils-Ottawa game ended with two gratuitous Senator muggings and two instigator penalties against New Jersey.
Most American voters endorse gratuitous get-toughism as an article of faith: they support the death penalty, clamour for corporal punishment in schools and are proud to maintain the world's largest prison population.
When the court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, it said an execution could avoid being a "gratuitous infliction of suffering" if it served the purpose of incapacitation, deterrence or retribution.
Note that gratuitous "lamely".
I hate gratuitous violence.
