gratuitous

1. ADJ If you describe something as gratuitous, you mean that it is unnecessary, and often harmful or upsetting. 不必要的

There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV. 電眡上充斥著過(guò)多的犯罪與無(wú)耑的暴力。

2. gratuitouslyADV 不必要地

They wanted me to change the title to something less gratuitously offensive. 他們想讓我把標(biāo)題改得不那麼過(guò)於無(wú)禮。