(adv.) For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
(2) This method is simple, safe, and the patch is gratis.
(3) Similar concentrations were determined for a second sample from the same source (Sample B), which was a gratis sample procured approximately nine years after Sample A.
(4) Breakfast (€6 extra) runs late and good espresso (rare in Madrid) is available gratis.
(5) Reports are submitted gratis to contributing pathologists and dermatologists.
(6) Meanwhile, the state pension – currently up to £115.95 a week, but rising to up to £155 for new pensioners as of April 2016 – is now linked to earnings, and despite occasional noise about such universal pensioner benefits as free prescriptions, gratis bus travel and the winter fuel allowance, they look set to remain in place.
(7) Nude F(1)mice that simultaneously received thymus gratis from both parents developed spleen cells restricted to both parental H-2 types.
(8) She worked there gratis because she hoped one day to be taken on by a museum or gallery.
(9) You don’t get much for free in Manhattan, and so when life offers you the chance to spend two hours in a church hall learning how to breastfeed twins simultaneously – gratis!
(10) Moviegoers' collective so-what response found an echo the following week, when Fox Searchlight Pictures lost in court to two unpaid interns who worked on Black Swan and sued for back pay, a potentially precedent-setting ruling that might put paid to the obscene phenomenon of the unpaid intern, a type ranging from the much put-upon digital field-hand whose "apprenticeship" is neither paid nor an apprenticeship, or the rich-kid digi-scab who can afford to work gratis, thinning out the workforce until it resembles the trust-funded lineup of The Strokes.
(11) That, along with tax-free pay and gratis accommodation.
(12) The care is gratis to advanced cancer patients and is based on the palliative philosophy of treatment of the symptoms and the person within the framework of continuity of care permitted by the oncologic approach.
(13) This paper discusses factors affecting dystocia and birth weight in Grati cattle in three villages in the Pujon district, East Java.
(14) The peer reviewing that ensures quality in these publications is likewise provided gratis by you and me, because the researchers who do it are paid from public money.
Gratuitous
Definition:
(a.) Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
(a.) Not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that uric acid is the only effective physiological inducer, while its 2 and 8 thio-analogues serve as gratuitous inducers.
(2) It is proposed that the ability of P. putida to tolerate the unusually high degree of possible gratuitous induction observed for camphor catabolism may be related to the infrequent occurrence of bicyclic ring structures in nature.
(3) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
(4) Induction of ethanolamine ammonia-lyase formation in Escherichia coli required both the ethanolamine and vitamin B12, and was gratuitous during growth on glycerol.
(5) There was a sense of it being gratuitously anti-science from someone whose locus in the debate wasn't clear.
(6) First, galactose repression of beta-galactosidase synthesis was markedly enhanced in bacteria tested subsequent to gratuitous induction of the galactose-degrading enzymes with d-fucose.
(7) L-Malate was the only physiological inducer and bromosuccinate was a gratuitous inducer of dicarboxylic acid transport in a succinic dehydrogenase deficient mutant.
(8) Induction of penicillinase (beta-lactamase) in Bacillus licheniformis 749 by 2-(2'-carboxyphenyl)-benzoyl-6-aminopenicillanic acid (CBAP) was examined, since this compound was reported to be a gratuitous inducer of penicillinase in Staphylococcus aureus.
(9) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(10) This budget isn't just going to be random pain, gratuitous pain, pain for the hell of it, sharp pain, stabbing pain ... it's pain – with a purpose.
(11) The authors predict a further rapid spreading of this infection in this risk group and postulated gratuitous providing of addicts with dispensable syringes and needles and condoms, and providing systematic intensive training of the personnel of dehabituation treatment institutions as well as extensive informational education of the addicts.
(12) Will the Australian government investigate whether it happened?” Abbott: “Well, we have very good relations with the Indonesian government and we’ve got very good cooperation with the Indonesian government when it comes to stopping people smuggling because, amongst other things, we haven’t offered the gratuitous insult to Indonesia that our predecessors did by, amongst other things, stopping the live cattle trade in panic at a television program.” Mitchell: “Prime Minister, will the Australian government investigate whether it happened?” Abbott: “Um, Neil, what we are doing is saving life at sea.
(13) Another person went to the gym at lunch time and couldn’t get out ... One member doesn’t have the right to revoke the pass of another member’s staff.” Chris Bryant, the former shadow leader of the House of Commons, said it was a terrible way to treat staff members, branding it petty and “vindictive, gratuitous nastiness”.
(14) In the absence of any known role for the products of the ilvGMEDA operon when repressing levels of branched-chain amino acids are present, there appears to be only a gratuitous role for the transcription at ilvEp.
(15) In half of the cases, combination of tissue signs of obstructive and calcificating pancreatitis were observed, so it is considered gratuitous to separate sharply the two forms of chronic pancreatitis.
(16) This compound also serves as gratuitous inducer of the catabolic acetylornithine aminotransferase.
(17) Their specific submission to Leveson lauded only "free speech that does no gratuitous harm".
(18) How can he live with himself after imposing such gratuitous pain upon the people of this nation?
(19) If you want to see how they turned out, pop over to Twitter where I am will posting gratuitous dough shots at @jnraeside .
(20) So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus."