In a sentence
Six example sentences with gratuitous, each labelled with its topic.
The third act adds a gratuitous car chase with no connection to the mystery the film had spent an hour building.
Movies
The edit was ruined by a gratuitous vignette that darkened corners nobody was looking at in the first place.
Photography
The patch notes apologized for a gratuitous loading screen that appeared between two menus for no reason anyone could name.
Gaming
The editor cut a gratuitous subplot about the neighbor's cat, which appeared in two chapters and changed nothing.
Literature
The remix adds a gratuitous key change in the final chorus that the song never does anything to earn.
Music
Critics called the tower's gratuitous spire an ornament with no purpose except winning a height contest with the block next door.
Architecture
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