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Synonyms for nonviolent
non·vi·o·lent
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Princeton's WordNet
nonviolentadjective
abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
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unbloodyAntonyms:
furious, lurid, knockdown-dragout, fierce, ferocious, savage, lashing, tough, raging, violent, ruffianly, bloody, slam-bang, knock-down-and-drag-out, rampageous, convulsive, hotnonviolent, unbloodyadjective
achieved without bloodshed
"an unbloody transfer of power"
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unbloodyAntonyms:
ferocious, ruffianly, convulsive, tough, lurid, rampageous, hot, fierce, raging, slam-bang, violent, furious, lashing, savage, bloody, knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out
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How to use nonviolent in a sentence?
It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner at those participating in nonviolent protest, and while we are fortunate this situation did not escalate into deadly force, this type of conduct is unacceptable in St. Louis.
Proposition 47 downgraded a variety of ‘non-serious, nonviolent crimes’ that had previously been considered felonies to misdemeanors…. A thief may now steal something under (a $950 limit) on a daily basis and it will never rise to felony status.… In the event that a perpetrator is pursued and apprehended, the consequence can be a small fine or a brief stay in jail. In reality, these repercussions are rare, outrage in these circumstances is apolitical…. ‘Every bicycle in our building has been stolen,’ says Karen Burns, president of a San Francisco condo association. ‘I’ve caught so many people stealing packages. They don’t care. They know nothing will happen to them. It’s crazy. It’s horrible. I feel like these people need to go to jail.’.
We have to practice nonviolent conflict resolution every day, and I think we're trying to do that.
I never saw him. I never met him, i was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.
In June, these were nonviolent protesters, racially mixed, a lot of young people fueled by the Black Lives Matter movement, those outraged by the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed under the knee of a White police officer in Minnesota. There was no violence there ... And the Biden White House has made it clear that they think that the threat posed by domestic terrorism is equal to that posed by international terror groups like ISIS, which is such a sobering thought that fellow Americans could be perceived as such a dangerous threat to their countrymen and women.
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