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
- semiotic
- semiotical
- semiotically
- semiotician
- semiotics
- Semipalatinsk
- semipalmated
- semi-Pelagian
- semi-Pelagianism
- semi-permanent
- semi-permanently
- semipermeable
- semi-precious
- semiprivate
- semi-pro
- semi-professional
- semi-prone position
- semiquaver
- semiquinone
- Semiramis
- semi-retired
- semi-retirement
- semi-rigid
- semi-skilled
- semi-skimmed