unpremeditated
Britishadjective
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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
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
The next day, Behenna was found guilty of unpremeditated murder, a result that spared him of the possibility of life in prison without parole.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019
It worked, but it seems to have been completely unpremeditated.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
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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