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'Dear father, ' he said sadly, 'I wish you would not expose yourself to such gratuitous pain from scoundrels ! '

Were it not for your gratuitous interference, the children would have quickly settled their dispute.

From gratuitous puke porn (and worse) to the barely titillating maid cafes, Tokyo is like a dirty old man in a teenager's body.

This example from Struts is a prime illustration of gratuitous copy-and-paste code, which is not only unnecessary but trivially easy to fix.

Excessive or gratuitous animation can obstruct the flow of your application, decrease its performance, and annoy users.

Mind you, it's a sort of gratuitous field-stripping exercise, but we do it in the lab all the time.

While I was in Easter Island , Comet McNaught was there also , so, you get a gratuitous picture of a moab with a comet .

It seems almost gratuitous to be posing such questions in a country where income levels have increased fivefold in half a generation.

If a state-owned one-man company acts as a transferor (transferee), the gratuitous transfer shall be deliberated by the board of directors.

I did not want to be singled out for gratuitous punishment.

It's a monstrosity, and a gratuitous one, as there is no urgency about legislating financial regulatory reform.

It does not cover bonuses and allowances of gratuitous nature, end of year payment and payments in kind.

Finch Mockingbird in the south office, his integrity and calm, often gratuitous justice for the poor.

It should be an inherent part of the material presented, not a gratuitous add-on.

and those perplexity are thereby shown to be by-products of gratuitous, avoidable portions of language.

The phrase is extraneous and gratuitous to the subject matter of the rest of the paragraph.

Most of this section, notwithstanding a gratuitous sex scene plus some comic capers, lacks a gripping atmosphere.

Participation in competition means the consent of authors to all conditions, including on gratuitous publication of works in any form.

Dawkins, by far the most anti religious lecturer, praised Morris's evolutionary views but called his Christianity "gratuitous. "

He did, however, also stress that BumpTop does not use any gratuitous 3D effects for the sake it it.

As donation contract is unidirectional and gratuitous, rights of unilateral revocation is given to the donor, which is not unfair for donee.

It's almost a gratuitous exercise to catalog the slings and arrows a data architect is likely to face advocating enterprise data models.

it was a gratuitous, that is, an artistic activity, though with few pretensions to being an art.

Since physics was julia's favorite subject, she enjoyed providing gratuitous assistance to celia.

With the climate crisis deepening, Britain can't afford this amount of gratuitous waste.

For Siza, formal complexity must be largely derived from real complexity and not from gratuitous invention.

This is an attempt once again to stampede a retreat from Iraq, and it is a gratuitous attempt to do this.

Except, that is, when he earned a yellow card for an ugly and gratuitous foul on one of County's more creative players, Alan Gow.

Contributed as an act of charity; gratuitous.

Gratuitous pneumatic screen, sit since returned to the window.

Liu boss, generous, because I never showed a trace of gratuitous waste of discontent.

But civility has been sacrificed to the gratuitous insult.

and I think it's just totally gratuitous. It's mindless.

Time and again, Isaacson repeatedly asks Jobs about Gates and Jobs cannot resist the gratuitous dig.

Though plastics have benefits, Baker says, there's a lot of gratuitous use.

Article 3 General foreign aids are divided into loan aid and gratuitous aid.

Surely it's time to have a "No More Gratuitous Parties" party.

Scenes of gratuitous violence on TV.

You shouldn't need a lot of ballast, which is just gratuitous weight.

gratuitous live performance of a published work, for which no fees are charged to the public, nor payments are made to the performers;

False message: Gratuitous public displays of affection are proof of a strong relationship

participate in the work of blood transfusion and donation, promote gratuitous donation of blood, and provide other humanitarian services;

Research into present situation of non-gratuitous services in gymnasiums and sports grounds at universities in Shandong province

Principal-Agent Relation in the Organization for Gratuitous Services

gratuitous adj. given freely; unwarranted; uncalled for

A Study on the Non- gratuitous First Distributing of the Discharge Right

I told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films;

Basic Science is not a Gratuitous Service

gratuitous contract and onerous contract

Copyright Law and Library Non-gratuitous Service

Idea and Mode of Developing Gratuitous Donated Blood Work

Non-gratuitous Service for Rural Power Customer

Carrying out non-gratuitous use of beach area, Promoting good management circle

Improvement and Perfection of System of Inter-government Gratuitous Payment in Our Country