Uninstigated

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not instigated. not-comparable

    "After four years of pointless, fruitless, uninstigated combat, if President Bush indeed escalates the “sacrifice” of other parents’ beloved children — against all reason, against the will of the electorate and without any personal sacrifice to call his own — it would not be vanity."

Example

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"After four years of pointless, fruitless, uninstigated combat, if President Bush indeed escalates the “sacrifice” of other parents’ beloved children — against all reason, against the will of the electorate and without any personal sacrifice to call his own — it would not be vanity."

Etymology

From un- + instigated.

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