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
- postclitic
- postclypeus
- post-coach
- postcode
- postcoded
- postcode lottery
- post-coenal
- post-coital
- post-coitally
- post coitum
- postcolonial
- postcolonialism
- postcolonialist
- post-coloniality
- post-Columbian
- postcolumellar
- post-communion
- post-communism
- post-communist
- post-conciliar
- post-concussion
- post-concussional
- post-concussional syndrome
- post-concussion syndrome
- post-conflict