Meaning of semigratuitous | Babel Free

Definitions

Somewhat but not entirely gratuitous

Examples

“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.”

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