unprovoked
/ʌnprəˈvəʊkt
/adjective
Carried out, occurring, or acting without direct provocation: an unprovoked attack on an innocent man...
- Once again we have seen a totally unprovoked and malicious attack carried out on impulse.
- The boys' parents are alleged to have carried out the unprovoked assault.
- We insist that those responsible for conspiring to wage unprovoked wars and carry out illegal coups must be tried for war crimes.
Rhymes
- pricklish
- pricklouse
- prickly
- prickly ash
- prickly box
- prickly broom
- prickly cedar
- prickly comfrey
- prickly fern
- prickly glasswort
- prickly grass
- prickly heat
- prickly lettuce
- prickly melon
- prickly Moses
- prickly palm
- prickly parsnip
- prickly pear
- prickly pole
- prickly poppy
- prickly rhubarb
- prickly saltwort
- prickly sculpin
- prickly shield fern
- prickly tang