semigratuitous

adj

adj

Etymology From semi- + gratuitous.

Somewhat but not entirely gratuitous

Making Sabina and Franz more marginal--in effect, characters who matter only in relation to Tomas and Tereza--the film never knows quite what to do with them; Franz, in particular, seems stranded in a semigratuitous Gig Young part, and the movie drops him like a hot potato the first chance that it gets.1988 February 12, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unwarranted Heaviness”, in Chicago Reader:

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