He insulted us gratuitously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a gratuitous insult. From Dictionary.com.
I wouldn’t put them in gratuitously, either, for no particular reason. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 2] Reference
Being in a country where many don't speak English, you can drop the f-word gratuitously when you are angry enough. From Wordnik.com. [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference
However, giving Earthlife opportunity to write "gratuitously" to the consultants did not constitute a hearing. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And frankly, given that Keyes has exactly no chance of winning, it just seems kind of gratuitously cruel to invade her privacy. From Wordnik.com. [Keyes’s Daughter] Reference
The major local daily in Toronto, the Toronto Star, says it doesn't believe in "gratuitously" labelling people by ethnic origin. From Wordnik.com. [America's top cop tells Canadians the truth about crime and race:] Reference
The suit "gratuitously" raises the question of whether the referendum was valid, something that undermines its own case, he said. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
"gratuitously" damaged South African economic and political interests internationally, it said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Here’s a link to the Amazon page, kind of gratuitously but to get it on the Technorati booktalk radar. From Wordnik.com. [This Blog is On A Sick Day] Reference
Then you perform this agreeable duty gratuitously?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
The article was then published gratuitously for me in the. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four] Reference
They just came gratuitously in the middle of singing and stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Portishead Masters Audio Glue on 'Third' Album] Reference
Functionality and size won out over gratuitously glitzy features. From Wordnik.com. [Get A Life Pilot] Reference
These forms are supplied gratuitously at all money order offices. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Postal Guide] Reference
Also puzzling is Mr. Obama gratuitously wading into the mosque issue. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Mystifying Strategy] Reference
Parts of the film are brutal — not gratuitously, but tough to watch. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Rwanda to Weep] Reference
Society, the profession of whose members is to hold schools gratuitously. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The jungle beasts are gratuitously nasty, the New England townsfolk no better. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Up Snake Eyes] Reference
Cary gratuitously spent about half of his time in caring for the sick of the colony. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
And I think to a certain extent, it is used gratuitously on this record as a production device. From Wordnik.com. [Assisted Listen: The Magnetic Fields' 'Distortion'] Reference
Several desperate men went to the store and doled the flour gratuitously to the homeless and stricken. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The Kolner Automobile Club will supply the touring automobilist graciously and gratuitously with information. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
The retro-choir was saved, and Mr. Gwilt completed the good work by restoring it, giving his services gratuitously. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The most precious things that man possesses he has almost always received gratuitously: let him learn so to give them. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
They are hardly the only dangerous situations on the football field, but they are often among the most gratuitously so. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: 'Boom. And I Hit Him'] Reference
These people are so bored, they're sitting around pointlessly inventing reasons to be scared or depressed gratuitously. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac.] Reference
"Sarkozy is not seen as being gratuitously nasty to Moscow," says Tomas Valasek, of the Centre for European Reform in London. From Wordnik.com. [Sarko Tackles the Bear] Reference
As early as 1750 he established for the Negroes in Philadelphia an evening school in which they were offered instruction gratuitously. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Because I can imagine like any sort of - I don't want to say trick, but any sort of device you can employ, it can be used gratuitously. From Wordnik.com. [Assisted Listen: The Magnetic Fields' 'Distortion'] Reference
A horror of home life possesses them to such a degree that they would rather pay to be bored outside than be amused gratuitously within. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
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