Modifying Another Word

• entirely: The support Jackson et al. are giving the Butcher of Baghdad is entirely gratuitous.

• completely: He even gets a completely gratuitous shower cuddle scene with Grace.

• never: Its erotic content is created by means of the montage of images and sounds and is never gratuitous.

• not: The Greens believe the only criterion for taking products off the market should be one of safety, not gratuitous standardization.

• wholly: And yet, perhaps precisely because it was wholly gratuitous, and went unpunished, it felt peculiarly wrong.

Modifies a noun

• nudity: I'm willing to bet no gratuitous nudity either?

• insult: The audience, carefully selected to be hostile, offered a series of gratuitous insults to the Prime Minister.

• cruelty: No case hardened child care professional can fail to be shocked by the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on Victoria Climbie.

• violence: There were many stories afterward of what appeared to be gratuitous police violence.

• alert: There speaks someone who's never read the Izabella thread... Gratuitous plug alert!

• plug: Gratuitous plug: The Castle is an excellent hotel!

Used with adjective complement

• seem: A fight scene later on also seems quite gratuitous.

• feel: Although these are all legitimate and interesting themes, at times their exploration feels gratuitous.