'gratuitously' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe actions done without purpose or without payment. Example: He gratuitously offered to help with the project.
in all that concerns commerce and navigation, any privilege, favour or immunity...to the citizens or subjects of any other State shall be extended to the citizens or subjects of the other Contracting Party gratuitously, if the concession in favour of that other State shall have been gratuitous, and on the same or equivalent conditions, if the concession shall have been conditional.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.52pm AEST02:52 I love the fact that not only did Lewi play Fuckin' Problems entirely uncensored by then just gratuitously said the title.
Not since the "great big new tax on everything" line mowed down reasonable discussion about alternative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has a political party so gratuitously abandoned rational policy development in the interests of a sledgehammer slogan.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.59pm AEST05:59 I've known the agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce for a very long time so please understand that I'm not making this observation gratuitously.
We will remove swearing when it is directed towards other community members in an abusive fashion, or if it is gratuitously offensive.
Then, amid a blizzard of dry ice, pyrotechnic fireworks and several gratuitously sexist blow-up dolls, a 54-year-old Englishman with a sore throat strutted his stuff through two dozen songs.For all his reptilian energy, watching Mick Jagger increasingly requires a Barnumesque suspension of disbelief.
Even he had to admit it was ingenious.Abbie Hoffman, a 1960s radical-cum-trickster, said most pranks fell into one of three categories: "good" pranks were amusingly satirical, "bad" ones gratuitously vindictive, and "neutral" ones surreal and soft on the victim (if there was one).
Some may find our criticisms upsetting, but we do not make them gratuitously.
With the fear of identity theft constantly stoked by the media (not entirely gratuitously, it must be said), the Shred Shop has its work cut out.
Although the article was purportedly directed at the island's fiscal crisis, it gratuitously asserted that it "now handles 40% of the cocaine entering the United States".
I can't think of a single other country in the world where you make references to any political party on a continuous basis with this kind of qualification as if the reference is part of the party's name.I believe that this kind of attribute that is so gratuitously granted is uncalled for, condescending, patronizing disdainful, or at a limit straight insulting.
