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unprovoked

US // (ʌnprəˈvəʊkt) //

无缘无故,无缘无故的,无端的,无缘无故地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not provoked by anything done or said

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inunwarranted
as inwanton
as ingratuitous
as ingroundless

Examples

  • 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.