gratuitously
adverb uk/ɡrəˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.li/ us/ɡrəˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.li/
无缘无故地
(of something bad) in a way that is not necessary, or that is without cause
gratuitously violent 无端地暴力
We do not need a situation where we are gratuitously offending our allies. 我们不想见到的局面是我们无缘无故地冒犯我们的盟友。
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- We are not in the business of gratuitously insulting our European partners.
- There had been a gratuitously cruel article in a magazine about her that implied nasty, untrue things.
- What that boy wrote was gratuitously offensive.