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
- optional clause
- optional extra
- optionalise
- optionality
- optionalize
- optionally
- option card
- optionee
- option exchange
- optionless
- option mortgage
- option paralysis
- options exchange
- option year
- opto
- optoacoustic
- optochin
- optochine
- optocoupled
- optocoupler
- optoelectronic
- optoelectronics
- optogenetic
- optogenetics
- optogram