Examples of 'not gratuitous' in a sentence

Meaning of "not gratuitous"

not gratuitous: This phrase is used to describe something that is not given or done without good reason or justification. It implies that there is a valid or legitimate purpose behind a particular action or decision

How to use "not gratuitous" in a sentence

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The violence in the movie was not gratuitous.
Anything that was not gratuitous was appropriate.
This association with a bayonet is not gratuitous.
These are not gratuitous questions.
Everybody knows that it is not gratuitous.
These are not gratuitous remarks.
Now what a man does out of duty is not gratuitous.
It is not gratuitous that I began my speech with these considerations.
These questions are not gratuitous or irrelevant.
They are necessary to the story and not gratuitous.
It 's not gratuitous or sexy or anything like that.
Yet the nudity was not gratuitous.
Even if it 's not gratuitous at all, which it was not here.
Hideous yes but not gratuitous.
This sort of political transvestism, with the right posing as a progressive force, is not gratuitous.

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The sex is not gratuitous.
His colour is outgoing and its intensities are not gratuitous.
Again, it is not gratuitous.
She has stated that she feels comfortable as long as the scenes are not gratuitous.
So it 's not gratuitous.
That the sex and violence is not gratuitous.
I mean, it 's not gratuitous to the novel.
The sex scene between them is not gratuitous.
This tendency is not gratuitous.
The are lots of battles but the violence is not gratuitous.
And so I think “ Requiem ” is not gratuitous in any way.
These are real soldiers . They are living in a war zone . The language is not gratuitous.
The language play is not gratuitous.
There is profanity, violence and sex in the novel, but it is not gratuitous.
Worst of all it was not gratuitous.
This work will be able to prove that what I present is not gratuitous.
My expression of that irony is not gratuitous.
The first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan were not gratuitous.
Unlike many other movies, these are not gratuitous shots.
The citation of the Borgian short story is not gratuitous.
Lots of violence, but not gratuitous.
More to the point, the reference was not gratuitous.
I have always been clear about this - this stuff is not gratuitous.
But it is necessary to exterminate the Jews, not gratuitous.
All suffering, therefore, is not gratuitous.
The film 's violence is not gratuitous.
And since it 's motivated by character, that means it 's not gratuitous.
So, no . The reference to Nazism was not gratuitous.
There is violence, but it 's not gratuitous.

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