View synonyms for unprovoked

unprovoked

/ ʌnprəˈvəʊkt /

adjective

Her first celebrity beef began when Snoop Dogg started Instagramming some pretty vile things about her, seemingly unprovoked.

One such pupil, unprovoked, wrote “Death to the Arabs” in the thread.

He does not want to join my reader in describing U.S. actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "unprovoked."

But Palestinians said a video of the entire incident showed that the violence by soldiers was unprovoked.

But contemporaries had qualms about launching unprovoked attacks.

I have been asked why I "interfered in things beyond my sphere," and why I made "an unprovoked attack" upon religion.

Have you any plea to urge beyond the natural one of her seemingly unprovoked desertion of you?

And upon his release he complained that the attack was unprovoked.

Did not this excellent young man, about three years ago, perpetrate an unprovoked and brutal assault on your son?

There are, however, many instances of entirely unprovoked assaults on vessels at sea.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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