Gratuitous

While I am asking miscellaneous questions, does anybody know the origin of the very common Maine usage I term the Gratuitous Negative?

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2 1975

Gratuitous links to your blogging buddies only benefit them, unless their websites offer such amazing thought, content and entertainment value that you have to link to them.

How to link unto others « Digital immigrant 2009

Gratuitous romantic subplot for Sylvia: eh, whatever, it's a movie, I expect it.

mrissa: They'll put it on my tombstone: "The book was better." mrissa 2010

The Block Airlines 'Gratuitous Fees Act, or BAG Fees Act, introduced Wednesday would require that carry-on bags be considered essential and taxed at the same rate as fares.

Schumer: Five major airlines commit to no carry-on fees 2010

Gratuitous sex scenes just to spice up a book do not work for me – especially within the first 10 pages of the book!!!

Countdown to Branded By Fire: 4 Days to Go! Nalini Singh 2009

Gratuitous hospitality in the form of airline tickets, hotel rooms, guest houses, etc., should never be accepted either abroad or in this country.

2009 April | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Gratuitous nudity (especially pale-arsed, middle-aged, British male nudity) is always hilarious.

SIRIUS XM is launching a Monty Python channel: What's your favorite Python song? | EW.com 2009

They're calling their bill the Block Airlines 'Gratuitous Fees Act, or the BAG Fees Act. But what is an "acceptable practice" when it comes to air travel?

Don't let bag fees make you nostalgic. Airlines' golden age wasn't so golden. 2010

Gratuitous exploitation of the female form is a convention of the genre, and not a fault of the game specifically, or of the broader game industry.

Archive 2008-02-01 SVGL 2008

Gratuitous second plug of the website -- ObamaPollWatch. com now has convenient mini-charts from both RealClearPolitics. com and Pollster. com which show daily graphs, for those of you who want the day-to-day outlook in graphical form.

Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- January, 2010 2010