Sentence examples for perfectly gratuitous from inspiring English sources

But did he have to include a perfectly gratuitous dig at a couple of fine literary journals, by making the book's most boorish character start out as "a poor starving writer" who published stories "in magazines with names like TriQuarterly and Ploughshares"?

Mr Ahmadinejad, a first-caliber incendiary nationalist politician, may well understand this perfectly, and his gratuitous finger-in-the-eye Holocaust denials may be intended to bring on an airstrike that would benefit him politically.

The problem here is that if indeed there is this incompatibility between a perfectly good necessary being (God) and gratuitous evils or even absolutely horrendous evils, then it would follow that such worlds would not be possible worlds, for they would contain a contradiction.

Gratuitous, too.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.

Adding Glass felt gratuitous.