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Definition of "unprovoking" []

  • Not provocative (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "unprovoking" in a sentence
  • "| Reply | Permalink fogu2 ... you are such a dickhead ... you really are becoming boring and your posts are really unprovoking ... losing your edge?"
  • "The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us."
  • "Whenever they have spoken at all they have said this; and they have said it on what has appeared good reason to them; the marching of an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to _you_ may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to _us_."