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Given freely; unearned.
- Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of
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Unjustified or unnecessary; not called for by the circumstances.
- gratuitous violence
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Extraneous, interpolated.
- [Chief of the Story Police:] “[…] You are hereby charged with crimes against good and proper storytelling, including the use of outlandish plots, ridiculous characters, silly names, needless repetition—I repeat, needless repetition—too much
syn. free · gratis · unjustified · groundless · baseless · unfounded · unnecessary
ant. onerous