semigratuitous

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English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ gratuitous.

Adjective

semigratuitous (comparative more semigratuitous, superlative most semigratuitous)

  1. Somewhat but not entirely gratuitous
    • 1988 February 12, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unwarranted Heaviness”, in Chicago Reader:
      Making Sabina and Franz more marginal--in effect, characters who matter only in relation to Tomas and Tereza--the film never knows quite what to do with them; Franz, in particular, seems stranded in a semigratuitous Gig Young part, and the movie drops him like a hot potato the first chance that it gets.