What's the difference between gratuitous and unearned?
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."
Unearned
Definition:
(a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
Example Sentences:
(1) My generation, buying homes in the 1970s, has seen the value of property soar above inflation every year: unearned, untaxed wealth caused by scarcity from failure to build.
(2) Updated at 9.38pm BST 9.35pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 2, bottom of the 4th Matt Moore is on the hook for both of those runs, just in case anyone doesn't believe that the rules for earned and unearned runs are dumb.
(3) This is now, when house prices are spiralling out of the reach of ordinary households, benefitting the few as their unearned asset rises in value while the wages of the many stagnate.
(4) New progressives want to reshape the tax base fundamentally, towards greater taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than of people.
(5) There are many old people sitting on mountainous property wealth generated by multiple bubbles, an unearned bonanza that has never been taxed.
(6) Hunt adds: “However, I should be clear that, whilst there may well be some within our party who see equality as an end in and of itself, I am not one of them … The fundamental task of progressive politics remains to ensure the opportunities enjoyed by the powerful are spread to the powerless.” Hunt, who will call for a new focus by Labour on taxing unearned wealth, including an annual tax on property values levied on owners to replace the “unfair and outdated” council tax, will also say that both New Labour and Ed Miliband’s Labour failed to make an effective case against inequality.
(7) Michael Gove surprised his audience at a conference fringe meeting last month with the declaration that Conservatives should talk more about the “undeserving rich” , whose insulation from risk by unearned reward was discrediting the case for free market capitalism.
(8) This allows people with a residency to legally avoid paying state income tax on so-called “unearned” income, such as dividends, interests and retirement benefits.
(9) The new tax would be a charge of 15% on unearned income and income from investment, he said, only applying to those paying the additional rate of tax for earnings of £150,000 a year or more.
(10) Yes is the answer, the Boston Red Sox , who capitalized on St Louis' mistakes to the tune of three unearned runs, even if they only needed two for the win, thanks to the animal in John Lester, who was lights out...again They would up with eight, a tremendous sign for Sox bats that were in a serious slump despite reaching the Fall Classic.
(11) Women face very real barriers, men are given very real unearned benefits, and these are collective social problems.
(12) Those who subscribe to such a view also deem income from benefits as somehow "unearned", yet there is very little "unearned" about it.
(13) Two other remuneration reports have also been defeated this year, at housebuilder Bellway, where investors objected to an unearned bonus, and at Provident Financial, where there was a 51% protest vote against a 20% pay rise for Peter Crook, the Provident Financial chief executive.
(14) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people."
(15) Both the Lib Dem leader and business secretary, Vince Cable , signalled on Saturday that the party would only entertain the abolition of the top rate in the long run if it was not raising much revenue and if it was replaced by new taxes on "unearned income".
(16) By contrast, new progressives want to reform the tax base fundamentally, towards taxation of unearned wealth and pollution, rather than people.
(17) Given these are but a few of the unearned advantages of being a white woman, they might just want to listen to their sisters about their economic, social and literal states of death as much as they demand - and maybe buy them a cup of coffee before they beat them to the pearly gates.
(18) Like that of Wallace and Thatcher, his "middle" comprises the "productive" members of society opposed to the "unproductive", the parasites living on "unearned" income.
(19) A mansion tax – a levy on rich homes – is thus eminently justifiable, as is a tax on unearned increases in land value.
(20) But the phrase stuck as Labour presided over a top rate of income tax of 83p in the pound, with an additional 15p tax on unearned income.