gratuitousadjective
uk/ɡrəˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs/us/ɡrəˈtuː.ə.t̬əs/disapproving(of something such as bad behaviour) not necessary, or with no cause:
A lot of viewers complained that there was too much gratuitous sex and violence in the film.
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Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- make a pig of yourself idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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gratuitously
adverb uk/ɡrəˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.li/us/ɡrəˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.li/
gratuitously violent
gratuitousness
noun [ U ] uk/ɡrəˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.nəs/us/ɡrəˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.nəs/