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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unprovoked
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 unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital.
▪ Any Rottweiler that makes an unprovoked attack on a human being should be destroyed.
▪ Read in studio A man who nearly died after being stabbed in an unprovoked attack, has returned home from hospital.
▪ It was a totally unprovoked attack and in the end the police were prosecuted for assault.
▪ This was a vicious unprovoked attack on an innocent man which could easily have had more tragic consequences.
▪ It was, said police, an unprovoked attack.
▪ Critically ill ... jogger is stabbed three times in unprovoked attack.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A man died in an apparently unprovoked attack in central Oxford last night.
▪ Troops have been accused of unprovoked aggression against innocent civilians.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any Rottweiler that makes an unprovoked attack on a human being should be destroyed.
▪ But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?
▪ It was a totally unprovoked attack and in the end the police were prosecuted for assault.
▪ The unprovoked attack has left the man critically ill in hospital.
▪ Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unprovoked

1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of provoke (v.).

Wiktionary
unprovoked

a. Happening without provocation or motivation

WordNet
unprovoked

adj. occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: motiveless, wanton]

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.