24 September 2018

• Gratuitously: Without good reason, unjustifiably 
• A moment of hope has been gratuitously extinguished by India. (Dawn)
• Over five years of Mr. Modi's rule, India has suffered variously from his raw wisdom, most gratuitously in November 2016, when his government abruptly withdrew nearly 90 percent of currency notes from circulation. (Pankaj Mishra) Added 25 May 2019.