gratuitously
advUK /ɡɹəˈtjuː.ɪ.təs.li/ · US /ɡɹəˈtu.ə.təs.li/
Etymology From gratuitous + -ly.
1
Freely; in the manner of a gift, without being earned.
- We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 1, in Walden:
2
In a manner not demanded by the circumstances, without reason, justification, cause, or proof.
- Secondly, Mr. Browne concludes, apparently rather gratuitously, on page 441 as follows[…]1881, Samuel Tolver Preston, “On Action at a Distance”, in Philosophical Magazine, 15:38-39: