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unprovoked
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Word definitions for unprovoked in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of provoke (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: motiveless , wanton ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an unprovoked attack (= in which the victim did nothing to cause the attack ) ▪ Their teenage son was knocked to the ground, kicked and punched in an unprovoked attack. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN attack ▪ The ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Happening without provocation or motivation
Usage examples of unprovoked.
Iraqi attacks on American forces in the region would be acts of unprovoked aggression and would galvanize international support for the invasion.
Their atmospheres predispose people to crime or virtue, to the calm of good will, to sneaking vice, or fierce, unprovoked aggression.
It was not unlike an unprovoked attack on our destroyers, on routine patrol on the high seas.
His concern grew rapidly as he studied his out-of-control companions, while unprovoked, unrestrained hilarity reigned on the Bridge.
Her parents, too, were stupified by the suddenness of the unexpected shock, and it was longer before their faculties recovered the tone proper to meet an insult so unprovoked and gross.
Nasqueron, some time before we imagined it would be necessary, due to unprovoked hostile action.
Are you aware what might happen if Umeh was to carry out an unprovoked hostile act against an Eqbas vessel?
As a kid he had been in fights, but never launched such an unprovoked attack.
About an attempted jailbreak, and an unprovoked attack on duly constituted authorities, and.
An impudent vagabond was brought up before this clergyman charged with a violent and unprovoked assault on a man in a public-house.
Your enemies on this planet cannot be entirely silenced, and they will not miss the chance to complain about the spaceship that, unprovoked, molested them, and it will be discovered that the ship was mine.
With or without atom-bombs, so savage and unprovoked an assault was Viton-inspired, and no doubt about it.
Becking and Slovenski have both testified that they were having a quiet conversation when you burst into the cell and made an unprovoked attack.
Their attack was unprovoked, unjustified and a political attempt to gain power and profit at the expense of our residents.
She felt the extremest anger at the unprovoked and unwarrantable harshness of Miss Margland, and a resentment nearly equal at the determined petulance, and unjustifiable aspersions of Indiana.