unpremeditated
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- unpremeditatedly adverb
- unpremeditation noun
Example Sentences
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“It was a clumsy attempt that seemed unpremeditated and it didn’t make sense.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
It fulfills our yearning for “authenticity”: Colloquial speech sounds direct and unpremeditated.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
If death is always trying to spirit Carol away, like a demon lover, and psychosis comes suddenly for Anna, like an unpremeditated assault, it’s life that grinds Bonnie down.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020
Mr Trump signed a full pardon of Mr Behenna, who has served five years for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.
From BBC • May 7, 2019
More effective, although unpremeditated, were the obstacles erected by the four little boys, Fred, Dan, Jack, and Bob, who kept running in and out of the rooms where the older girls were entertaining their callers.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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