say it: gruh-TOO-uh-tuh-slee
gratuitously is an adverb meaning "in an uncalled-for manner". It carries one recorded sense.
in an uncalled-for manner
“he insulted us gratuitously”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gratuitously come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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