Then there is his infuriating penchant for gratuitously offering compromises before a policy debate has even begun.
They were not going to stop in the hall to be grossly and gratuitously insulted!
He had been gratuitously insulted in the midst of his new dignities.
He now changed his tactics, and resolved to board and lodge with her gratuitously.
But they were not gratuitously gone into, on the part of England; far from that.
It was a willing service and gratuitously performed, for the good of men.
And he had spurned it as if Mr. Blackwood and the others had gratuitously insulted him!
That is quite as much as any doctor can do or say gratuitously.
Have our government and nation been gratuitously outraged by Mexico, or not?
President Woodruff labored freely and gratuitously in the ministry.
1690s, from gratuitous + -ly (2).
1650s, "freely bestowed," from Latin gratuitus "done without pay, spontaneous, voluntary," from gratus "pleasing, agreeable," from gratia "favor" (see grace). Sense of "uncalled for, done without good reason" is first recorded 1690s.
