| 词汇 | gratuitously |
| 释义 | gratuitously adverb uk /ɡrəˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.li/ us /ɡrəˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.li/ (of something bad) in a way that is not necessary, or that is without cause: 无缘无故地 gratuitously violent无端地暴力 We do not need a situation where we are gratuitously offending our allies.我们不想见到的局面是我们无缘无故地冒犯我们的盟友。 See gratuitous We are not in the business of gratuitously insulting our European partners. There had been a gratuitously cruel article in a magazine about her that implied nasty, untrue things. What that boy wrote was gratuitously offensive. Too much and unnecessary ado be up to your neck (in something)idiom bellyful binge carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom drown gush hyper immoderate immoderately inappeasable inessential infest plenty pleonasm pleonastic plethora proliferation unwarranted weigh someone/something down Examples of gratuitouslygratuitously Sometimes the cyclic scheme seems to be invoked gratuitously. They should not simply have eternal happiness given to them gratuitously. The idea is that gratuitously harming the horse wrongs the horse. Howsepian does not support this slander in any way, he merely throws it out gratuitously as a live possibility and then refuses to pursue it. He also introduces the accompaniment of bells and clarsach (a wire-stringed instrument), gratuitously assuming a crossover between secular and sacred music that is not at all evident to careful scholars. It is natural to suppose that the problem with hard antipaternalism is that it protects individuals' freedom to perform actions that are gratuitously or viciously self-harming. What they could not accept, in the name of enlightenment, are community involvements of a sort that gratuitously constrain the sovereign will or that gratuitously constrain the artificer's actions. A few small vessels have been chartered to perform harbour service duties, which were no part of the duties allotted to gratuitously loaned motor boats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He told us gratuitously that there was also a proposal to site a major power station next door to it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Put baldly like that, that seems to be a gratuitously insulting remark. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have an admirable adage in our profession which says that advice which is gratuitously offered is quite useless. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, if he were to tell them, gratuitously, it might well be that it could be contended that he was exceeding his powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why have the taxpayer's assets been squandered and their value gratuitously reduced? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The engineer has been good enough to give his services gratuitously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The smaller pamphlet, issued gratuitously, quotes the most striking passages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of gratuitously These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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