"I would not have sent this letter except for the unprovoked, gratuitous, false attack launched by him," Mr. Koch added.

When the wounded man, whose name was Owen Parry, had dragged himself back to the village, he told a story of gratuitous attack by the man-dog.

But the primary reason for a lot of the gratuitous attacks on the company is the fact that the vice president used to sit at my desk.

Bashing is a harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial attack on a person, group, or subject.

Nor, he said, shall the lawyers "engage in gratuitous, personal attacks upon each other."

Shi Lang was angered by this quite gratuitous attack but managed to keep silent.

She called on the panel to "publicly and persistently repudiate gratuitous attacks on the judiciary."

Yet the gratuitous attack on a group of dissidents does more to illuminate the real crisis in the hierarchy in America.

He said he and Barbara were "burned up" about the "gratuitous attacks" on Jeb.

The obvious prejudice of the judge from the first, culminating in the summary adoption ceremony and gratuitous attack on the helpless biological mother in the opinion.